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...raucous caucus of miners results in some explosions of laughter. The score-notably I Still See Elisa, I Talk to the Trees and Wand'rin' Star -is strong enough to levitate several musicals. But only Presnell has a legitimate singing voice, and he is given a single solo and a walk-on role as a bordello manager. Seberg's dubbed voice is as thin as the plot, and Eastwood's real one is scarcely a millimeter thicker. Marvin gamely rasps his lines, but crooning is not his bag. Comedy is. Fitted with outrageous muttonchop whiskers...
...Elisa Daggs, who creates in paper for 60 department stores, including Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor, has designed striped kaftans ($7) and Kabuki slippers ($2) as well as specially treated raincoats ($7.50) and bikinis ($4) that can be worn in the water, last for two to three wearings. Formfit Rogers has gone into underwear with a $3 ensemble consisting of bra, petti-skirt and kerchief. Not to be outdone, Hallmark Cards has just marketed a complete paper party kit: a flower-printed shift with matching cups, plates, place mats, napkins, matches and even invitations. Among other strong sellers...
...Elisa, Napoleon's eldest sister, was a shrewd, bald bluestocking with "the soul of a libertine in the body of a spinster" and only two claims to fame: 1) she made a fortune selling marble busts of her brother, and 2) to preserve her properties, she turned traitor and delivered Florence to the allies...
...Elisa Grey de Abalos, 94, widow of a prominent Chilean politician, is mad. The Santiago mansion over which she reigns is rotting. Her housekeepers get drunk. Her nursemaid turns thief, gets pregnant. And her only living relative, Grandson Don Andres, 54, is a cultured celibate who has made a career of reading French history and collecting walking sticks. To top it off, Elisa has a vocabulary astonishingly rich in four-letter words and an imagination so diabolical that most of her maids flee in horror. For all her madness, though, the old girl has a no-nonsense way of getting...
...nude by Canova, slept indiscriminately with ambassadors and tradesmen, and fostered the rumor that she was engaged in an incestuous affair with Napoleon himself. The brothers and sisters squabbled among themselves about whose titles took precedence and complained regularly to Napoleon about details of protocol at the court (Elisa and Caroline never forgave him for seating them on stools at one state reception when they felt their rank entitled them to arm chairs). Worst of all, Napoleon's addled brothers got the notion that they were supposed to rule over their various subjects rather than act as emissaries...