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Hooray for your reporter who did the Prima-Smith bit in SHOW BUSINESS-clearly a writer with discerning eye, ear and wit. Although you'll receive heavy abuse from their fans, and Louis will chortle ''all the way to the bank." it's encouraging to read such a clear analysis of this gruesome twosome and their gutter-grade maneuvers...
...skimmed over the most important decade of Louis Prima's career, namely, the '40s. While disk-jockeying in wartime London and postwar Munich, I was swamped with letters from G.I.s and civilians with jaded musical appetites who asked for repeat after repeat of ''garlicky-dialogued" Robin Hood, Angelina, and the big hit of all, I'll Walk Alone...
Stifled Yawn. Greta Garbo slipped into a royal blue bikini and plunged into the Mediterranean from her Cap d'Ail villa. Sir Winston Churchill and Maria Callas, the prima of prima donnas, cruised offshore in the yacht of Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis. The young Aga Khan, fresh from Harvard, kept happy a chateauful of guests, including pretty Tracy Pelissier. Belgium's King Baudouin holidayed solemnly at Cabassol with his sister Princess Joséphine-Charlotte and her husband, Prince Jean of Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl...
Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The prima ballerina does a pratfall onstage. But her reputation is saved: it's murder. Cow-eyed Comedian Morey Amsterdam bounces through the rerun of Dance of Death with the graceful assistance of Ballerina Tamara Geva. Color...
...raves when he brought his imitations of Tallulah, Luise Rainer and Bette Davis to Broadway in New Faces of 1956, did even better the following year in Mask and Gown, a sort of one-man one-woman show. This season he is already booked for the part of the prima donna in Friml's The Firefly. Still he complains that opportunities are limited. ("I was slated for a part as one of the strippers in Gypsy, but Ethel Merman nixed me.") It is a sad thing, says Jones, that "today, female impersonation is a dying art. It goes back...