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When the Old Vic repertory company toured Down Under early this year, New Zealand Beer Baron Sir Ernest Davis, 90, turned up at the Auckland theater for a gander at Actress Vivien Leigh, 48, playing Marguerite Gautier in Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias. So smitten was Sir Ernest with vibrant Vivien that he hurried backstage after the performance, wined and dined the cast, kept in touch by occasional long-distance phone calls when she returned to London, and on one occasion promised to remember her in his will. Last month Sir Ernest died-and his will...
...Ogilvy, Benson & Mather. Yet it is Ogilvy's flair for creating ads that are literate and entertaining while tugging at the purse strings that has made him the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry. It was Ogilvy who immortalized Hathaway shirts with Baron Wrangel's eyepatch and bearded Commander Whitehead for Schweppes. Cultivated, charming and handsome enough to model occasionally in his own ads, British-born David Ogilvy studied history at Oxford, served a Depression stint as a chef in a Paris hotel, and sold stoves door to door in Scotland before coming...
...meteoric postwar career, Dr. Oetker's grandson, Rudolph August, 46, has made himself the nation's largest private shipowner, one of its biggest brewers, a major power in banking and insurance, and boss, in all, of more than 100 companies. Next week the baking powder baron is due in New York to inspect the Columbus Lines (18 cargo ships), which he bought from Du Pont five years...
...unhappily, the baron stops looking at himself just long enough to notice his luscious young cousin (Stefania Sandrelli). His mustache bristles. From that moment he is a man with a mono mania: off with the old wife (Daniella Rocca), on with the new. Furtively he riffles through a lawbook, evilly he smiles at what he finds, cunningly he recruits a lover for his wife. It isn't easy. For one thing, she has a mustache almost as fluffy as his own. For another, she is pugnaciously, insultingly faithful...
Finally he turns up one of her old boy friends, a shy and impecunious painter (Leopoldo Trieste). The baron lures the fellow to his house, hires him to restore some murals, asks his wife to supervise the work, rigs a tape recorder to take down what they say, sits down in the next room, loudspeaker on and automatic oiled, to see what happens. Well, what happens is hilarious, and keeps right on being hilarious until the lovers are dead and the baron, his time served, comes home a hero and weds the woman of his heart. As the film ends...