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...Shaw's novel Two Weeks in Another Town and will soon do The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. But his real amusement, risky or not, is the Theater Group at U.C.L.A., which has become so popular that hundreds of people are turned away every night. When Louella Parsons demanded tickets to a recent production, she was turned down. In Hollywood, that is called mother courage...
...after glancing nervously around to see that only friends are present. The object of this catalogue of clouts, usually more affectionate than they seem, prefers to describe herself as "the gay illiterate," a tag she swiped from a magazine story and magnified into an autobiography in 1944. This week Louella Oettinger Parsons adds another hard-cover installment, Tell It to Louella (Putnam; $3.95), to the legend of a girl reporter who came out of Dixon, Ill., to spend nearly 40 years as the queen of movie journalism-and, indeed, of all Hollywood...
...dowager on the far side of 70-or the near side of 80-tiny, frail Louella Parsons is still adding busily to the legend. When Lolly prattles in her column (syndicated in 70 papers) of Hollywood's marital triangles and parallelepipeds, when she sifts the dust from its closets, even when she gives a plug to a young star she thinks deserving, her chatty, outrageous blend of cat's claws and sentimentality enthralls 20 million readers. In 316 freshly printed pages about herself, Louella does not change the formula: her book is a marvelous and implausible edifice built...
...that "We have just celebrated the Fourth of July." The Journal-American was busy informing its readers that "Brett Halsey hasn't heard a thing from his estranged wife, Luciana Paluzzi, since she sent him a terse cable informing him that she had a baby boy in Rome" (Louella Parsons), that "when enameled bathtubs and lavatories become yellow, rub with a solution of salt and turpentine to restore the whiteness" (Bert Bacharach), and, in a quick switch to weightier matters, that the Dominican Republic under Trujillo "was the best country on earth from the standpoint of the practical well...
...raconteur of such Parsons-Hopper-Lyons-Kilgallen glimpses of the jet set at play is not named Louella, Hedda, Leonard or Dorothy. He is Germany's Wiener-Schnitzel Winchell, Gossipist Hannes Obermaier, who writes a daily Page 2 column for Munich's tabloid Abendzeitung called "Hunter Jots Down''-the name Hunter coming from a brand of Dutch cigarettes that Obermaier likes. In the eight years that Obermaier has chronicled high life in Europe's low places, Abendzeitung's circulation has shot from 17,000 to 105,000. His bosses give him much...