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Gigi goes each week to her great-aunt Alicia (Cathleen Nesbitt)-the immensely successful grande cocotte of the family who might be its dowager duchess-for lessons in how to eat ortolans or determine the comparative value of jewels. Aunt Alicia also decides which rich young Parisian shall launch her grandniece. But the play itself decides on a prettier ending: the chosen rake (Michael Evans) offers lovestruck Gigi no proposition but a proposal...
...tastes. Bergdorf's vendeuses are sometimes as well known as their customers (on Bergdorf's payroll now: Mrs. Geoffrey Gates, the ex-Mrs. Harry Hopkins, Author Kay -Eisenhower Was My Boss-Summers-by) and sometimes too hoity-toity even for Bergdorf's. When the Grand Duchess...
Charles Guy Fulke Greville, Earl of Warwick, 40, left England's autumn heat to spend five days as the house guest of Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, the often-arrested monarchist gadfly of Franco Spain. After sightseeing in Madrid and a round of motoring, swimming and riding, the Earl presented the Duchess with a small memento of the occasion: a pair of Cartier's diamond cuff links bearing the Warwick coat of arms. The little interlude ended with gallant restraint as the Earl kissed his hostess' hand, boarded a plane and made his farewell: "Thank you, Luisa...
FitzJames (absorbed in his exam): wonderful hosts the Duke and Duchess...Kept me going all the time...yacht...white tie quite crumpled...
FitzJames (absorbed in his exam): wonderful hosts the Duke and Duchess...Kept me going all the time...yacht...white tie quite crumpled...