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...Helena Rubinstein had the jumble of jewels packed up in manila envelopes and squirreled away under E for emeralds and R for rubies in a locked filing cabinet. No need for all the fuss, though. Three hoods tried to rob her a year before she died last spring, and elfin Helena angrily screamed them out of the bedroom of her Park Avenue triplex. The fabulously ill-kempt collection, amassed over 60 years and often valued at $1,000,000 survived until last week, when all but a dozen of the finest pieces willed to her sisters and niece were sold...
BEETHOVEN: THE COMPLETE VIOLIN AND PIANO SONATAS (4 LPs; Columbia). Released separately over the past few years, these performances by Violinist Zino Francescatti and Pianist Robert Casadesus are now complete. The earlier sonatas are especially fine, for the French artists are marvelously attuned to the lyricism, elfin wit, and inventive refinements of the young Beethoven. Other violinists may play the works more romantically (David Oistrakh on Philips) or more brilliantly (Jascha Heifetz on RCA Victor), but their pianists do not always live up to them, and the understanding partnership of the two virtuosos in the new series is rewarding...
Beginning her movie career with 1962's A Taste of Honey, elfin English Actress Rita Tushingham, 23, played an illegitimate teen-age girl left pregnant by a passing Negro sailor and befriended by a young homosexual. Well, that sort of squalor was one thing, but when Britain's Associated Television offered her the part of an Irish country girl who turns to drink, Tush demurely demurred. "I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk," she explained teetotally. "I have never been drunk in my life and don't expect I ever...
Those Galloways, as depicted by Walt Disney's elfin helpers, demonstrate conclusively that not every rural New England community is a Peyton Place. These Galloways are wholesome folks, and their struggles to provide a sanctuary for migratory geese make the high-flying fancies of Disney's Mary Poppins seem quite worldly, if not downright cynical...
...quite respectable, she helped win millions of women over to them, emphasizing their therapeutic power and billing herself as "The First Lady of Beauty Science." She was a hardheaded eccentric who became one of the world's wealthiest women. When she died last week in Manhattan at 94, elfin (4 ft. 10 in.) Helena Rubinstein left behind a $60 million business that stretches from New York to London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro, and sells her preparations in more than 100 countries...