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Show Comedienne's Advice Is to hun Dignity HOLLYWOOD, Dec 10 ( uc-oeaa, uc-oeaa, aaya Beatrice Lillle,' oonslats la tossing your dignity out of the window and having fun. Mias Lillle, comedienne of the stage and screen, tossed bar dignity away long ago. motion picture with Blng Crosby and In It aba geta kicked around with much indignity. It Is not the kind of treatment usually accorded a titled lady. Miss LUlis Is actually Lady Pi, widow of Sir Robert Peel. Resting today between "takes" of ber strenuous work. Miss Lillle explained : "There's no point In being stuffy, really. It's all very well to be serious seri-ous whan there's need to be serious, but there's nothing more deadly than permitting oneself to be serious seri-ous about everything in life. "Some persons have been kind enough to aay that I have a gift for satire and mimicry. I think, rather, it'a because I learned early In my professional career to toss dignity out of the window and have fun. And. as a prescription for almost anything that ails you, It'a a bit aH right, I've- leaaa.1' In her current picture, the script calls for Miss Lillle to be catapulted across the room from a trick operating operat-ing table and end up against the wall with a thud. Again, shs Is struck from the rear while taking a bow at the conclusion conclu-sion of a comedy dance routine. She staggers up three steps and through the rear doors of a gypsy wagon. All this is extremely undignified but very lucrative. |