This is me, Eloise. I am a nuisance at rehearsals. The producer said so. He ought to know.

Mostly I live at the Plaza, but now I am in Hollywood. On Thanksgiving Day, we are doing the story that Kay Thompson wrote about me, and it is full of stars. I like Ethel Barrymore but I am going to do something about Monty Woolley. He has a beard. He likes me, I told him I would like him better without his beard. Now he does not like me quite so much.

Mildred Natwick plays Nanny. She is my nurse. She says everything three times like "Eloise don't be so messy messy messy!" Or "Eloise stop squirming, squirming, squirming!"

Louis Jourdan is so-o-o handsome. He lives next door to me at the Plaza. Mr. Frankenheimer, he's the director, says I'll think I'm back at the Plaza when they finish building the scenery. I bet they don't remember how many telephones there are in the lobby. I do, there are eight.

Charlie Ruggles is one of my extremely favorites. He wears an old hat that I picked up at the costume department. He drives a horse and carriage in Central Park. I'm going to pick out the horses all the time for Ethel (that's Miss Barrymore) but hers are all listed on a piece of paper so I really don't see them, But she says that's all right as long as they win.

Maxie Rosenbloom has very long legs which are good for hanging on to, but Hans Conried is skinnier. Jack Mullaney is my tutor and he's exactly the same, which is boring, boring, boring!

Of course, my mostly friend is Kay Thompson. She understands me. She says that grown ups are precocious. I do too. She lives on the other side of the suite at the Plaza. I look over her transom quite a lot, so she's always giving me C-A-N-D-Y to keep quiet. I see quite a lot for a child of six.

Weenie, my dog (he looks like a cat), and Skipperdee my turtle (he eats raisins), came to Hollywood with me. Weenie got sick on the plane but I sat up with him in the ladies room. He didn't mind.

Here's what I like about Television City. There's this big eye on the CBS building. I can make one eye like that, too, and Nanny says "Eloise what if your face freezes, freezes freezes?" And I say "Not in Hollywood, for gracious sake."

Here's what I like, too. The hot dog stand where all the stars eat at rehearsal breaks. I unscrew the lids on the mustard squeezers and watch. I like rehearsals. Because you can just kind of skaggle around and waste a lot of time. Here's what I hate. All those pieces of script. Here's what I like to do. Ride on top of the cameras. You can see absolutely everything from up there. Cry for two minutes without stopping. If somebody times me. Sing. I'm a dramatic soprano, Kay says.

I very seldom have a temper fit in Hollywood. But everyone else does. Everybody is quite nice -- so far. Besides there is so much else to do do do. On thanksgiving, the night of our show, I think I'll draw me, ELOISE, on the front of all the sets. Wouldn't that be annoying!

Editor's note: "Eloise" with wonderful seven-year-old Evelyn Rudie in the title role, will be presented Thursday, via CBS-TV, from 9:30 to 11. We advise you to tune in in in!