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...while there is a marvelous incoherence to it all. The slobs and the ridiculously gorgeous girls they collect (Elsa Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mylene Demongeot, Rosanna Schiaffino) flee through the city in a frantic chase sequence, with nothing after them except howling boredom. They start a fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance...
...clean cause. No charity ball can afford to be without a celebrity or two; the Polonaise Ball had Polish-born Pianist Artur Rubinsiein, who also serves as honorary chairman of the charity itself (for Polish World War II refugees now living in the U.S.), and other celebrators ranged from Elsa Maxwell to Douglas Fairbanks...
...busiest charity ball patrons: "When you get there, you look at your program. Then you look around the room for the people listed and you don't see them. I've been on ball committees and haven't gone myself." Says Party Arranger Elsa Maxwell: "The charity ball is a place where the climbers can see each other...
Nibbling a Publisher. Several sheafs of remarkable photographs show the cubs as they develop from wobble-kneed clowns to adult predators. Elsa remains the book's commanding personality, clubbing her children judiciously when they are too rough for her human friends, using the top of the Adamsons' Land Rover as a refuge when she is tired of suckling. The reader acquires some useful information-rhinos make "unexpectedly meek sounds" when they mate, lurking crocodiles will show themselves if one says "imn, imn," before fording a river, and a nursing lioness can retract her teats for convenience while hunting...
...Elsa's British publisher visited the camp and awoke one morning to find himself pinned to his cot by the lioness, who nibbled affectionately at his face. Den Mother Adamson was severe: "I gave her such a beating that she sulkily left the tent." By this time the reader has become as fond as the author of this literary lion, and it is a sad thing to read, on the last page, that there will be no more books about Elsa. She died of a blood disease early this year (TIME...