Hollywood: The Cataleptic Set

Conjury and hypnosis are ancient Hollywood trades, and they have made many a local citizen rich. Small wonder, then, that Hollywood royalty steals reverently these nights to the cave of an Amazonian blonde who has, with a glare of her Nefertiti eyes, stretched Steve Allen and Linda Christian board-rigid across chairs in cataleptic trances. "Nobody can follow her," says Screenwriter Stanley (Pillow Talk) Shapiro reverently. "Not even Frank Sinatra."

This sorceress is named Pat Collins, and for practicing her hypnotic arts on the screenland patrons of The Interlude on Sunset Strip, she is...

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