At the continued insistence of that middle-aged imp, Jack Paar, his guest, Judy Garland delivered some surprisingly unprofessional remarks about Marlene Dietrich, who recently opened in London.  Neither one of these living legends needs the publicity of a feud, but if the lady Ernest Hemingway nicknamed "The Kraut" so chooses, she could tear Little Miss Rainbow to shreds.  Actually the one who needs the publicity is Paar, whos show is Number 82 this year.

MIss Garland's voice is deteriorating and it is dangerously close to becoming a caricature of herself.  Miss Dietrich never had one, but both performers are more successful in lighting up a song than any popular stars of our time.  I suspect Miss Garland's glass house is too vulnerable to attack for her to throw the first stone in any direction.  Her comments on Miss Dietrich's entrance to a party clutching a huge record were quite another matter and very charming.

Daily Variety
December 14

For the Anglophiles it must have been a jolly evening.  The lip readers must have enjoyed it, too.  For those who had trouble cutting through the thick accents it was pretty dreary.  Saving grace for them, however, must have been the participation , in song and dialog, of Judy Garland.  As for Jack Paar, like he said, "It's impossible for you not to like me.  I don't do anything." and truer words he never spoke. 

In an anecdotal exchange, Judy told a story on Marlene Dietrich that was a little catty.  Miss Garland did say she didn't want to be too harsh with Marlene.  Most of the dialog between Paar and the singer was both disjointed and unrevealing of her experiences abroad.  Her singing voice was both tremulous and blatant.  The thunderous applause must have been a demonstration of affection for Miss Garland.  Paar should give Miss Dietrich equal time to answer her detractor (a promotion natural)

Judy Garland's voice was shrilly off-key during the two doleful songs she sang on Friday's filmed in London JACK PAAR PROGRAM.  But - despite a certain strangeness of manner - she proved a most entertaining conversationalist.

How did she feel about being "a living legend?"  "It's lonesome, everyone thinks of you as the Statue of Liberty who doesn't breathe."

She told an amusing story about a chauffeur's failure to let her make a proper entrance at a posh affair, so that she had to circle the block and repeat the business of making a gracious gestures, and an even  funnier one about Marlene Dietrich's long, long-playing recored, consisting of nothing but idolatrous audiences' applause.  "Noel Coward said, "I hope there isn't another side to this," Judy recalled.  "There WAS!"