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...Romanoff's restaurant in Hollywood. "When she walked in," recalls one of the other, "every chin in the place dropped. Hasty telephone calls brought in a mob of patrons. Nobody moved until we left arm in arm two hours later." After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper...
...stars rewarded him with their patronage. John Huston took Evelyn Keyes to Romanoff's one night, and the dinner went off so well that Romanoff sent out for a ring and chartered a plane. Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons buried one of their perfumed hatchets under a Romanoff's table. Admiral Bull Halsey. as best man, emceed the wedding breakfast celebrating Myrna Loy's marriage to Gene Markey. Gable guzzled champagne at Romanoff's with an indiscriminate palate. Errol Flynn naturally threw his suckling-pig parties at home, but Romanoff's catered them...
...would be buzzing tomorrow." The other was Percy MacKaye's A Thousand, Years Ago, in which Ev played a pulsating lover panting after the charms of the Princess of Pekin. He won her, of course-and he kept he, for the "princess" was played by a girl named Louella Carver, who became Dirksen's real-life bride...
Irreverently telling her mother before she told it to Louella, Dancer Juliet Prowse, 25, phoned her South African home with "heartsore" news. Informed by Fiancé Frank Sinatra, 46, that "there's millions of girls who'd give up work to marry me," the lissome cineminx had decided that she wasn't one of them. But there was consolation amid the wreckage of her six-week trial engagement. "You have to hand it to Juliet," confided a Sinatra intimate. "For all those weeks, there was never any other girl." Besides, the career that Juliet had declined...
...inviting Miss Winters, since the visit could have turned into just another Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year affair, with hordes of photographers following Miss Winters around as she struck one photogenic pose after another. And Miss Winters' lecture Tuesday night could have taken the form of a long Louella Parsons article. If the exchange of views is to be a success, the visitor must learn from Harvard, too. Visitors should not feel obligated to adopt a scholastic approach, but they must treat the task of communication seriously...