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Your story on Hedda Hopper (TIME, July 28) was a titillating yarn, but what stopped me in my tracks was the cover portrait of Hedda, complete with headgear composed of the implements of her trade...
Back in 1938, I came upon Miss Hopper during one of my trips to Hollywood. She was playing in a Paramount picture, Thanks for the Memory, and agonizing through her first columns. Even at that time, as you can see from the enclosed picture, Hedda's typewriter had gone to her head...
Home Life. She lives in a typical Beverly Hills house just across the street from Lady Mendl and around the block from Mike Romanoff. It is complete with swimming pool, five phones, a dachshund nostalgically named Wolfie, and several hundred hats. There, Hedda promotes cozy Sunday morning breakfasts with leading ladies of the screen. Instead of Hedda's calling on them for an interview, it is customary for them to call on her (though she is not quite as insistent on this point as Louella...
Every so often she throws a party. Visiting stage celebrities are likely to be the guests of honor. The town turns out obediently. In turn, Hedda expects to be asked to all major parties and weddings of any size. People like to have Hedda at their parties, because she is amusing and inevitably the center of attention...
...Hedda always asks Louella to her parties. Louella never comes. While the two get along fairly well, "our love," according to Hedda, "is not exactly demonstrative." Relations have been a little shaky lately because of the May Day baby incident. When Bette Davis had her May Day baby, she flew the coop and refused to talk to the press. Hedda, suspecting that Bette had gone to Laguna, climbed into her grey Cadillac and simply drove down. Finding the door ajar, she walked in. Bette was delighted to see her and they talked for two hours. Said Lolly in her column...