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...celebrities who choose to schuss its slopes by day and carouse, après-ski, in the little town huddled at its base. If the sporty figure sipping a spot of Pernod at the peak is Aristotle Onassis and the lady sitting it out at the bottom is Elsa Maxwell, then the site is St. Moritz. If the set is peopled by a slightly showier crowd, among them players such as Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Deborah Kerr, it is Klosters. And if the Greek fellow is named Stavros Niarchos and the other folk include the King and Queen...
...described in a 1957 novel by Italy's Elsa Morante, the authoress wife of Author Alberto Moravia, Arturo was a brilliant youth whose imagination flashed all the colors of a Rimbaud. As depicted in Damiano Damiani's film version of the book, the boy seems more like the Tom Sawyer of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Nevertheless, his story is touching, and it is interpreted by all three principals with aplomb and sensibility...
...Newman. The public was either indifferent or hostile at first, but Betty Parsons got an unexpected boost her first year from a most unlikely source. "Anyone who wants to spend $100 or $150 for a picture by one of the younger American abstractionists may eventually own a masterpiece," cooed Elsa Maxwell in one of her columns. "Some dissenters scream, 'Hang the abstractionists!' I echo: 'Certainly, but why not hang them on your walls?' " One dealer who enthusiastically agreed was Charles Egan, who gave De Kooning and Franz Kline their first oneman shows...
...intended, and Pigeon gets off to a flying start as two G.I.s (Charlton Heston and Harry Guardino) sneak into Nazi-controlled Rome disguised as priests. Their mission: to spy on the Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...
...Does Princess D'Arenberg wear a matching Elsa Maxwell with every costume? CHARLOTTE HARTWIG Melbourne, Australia...