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...finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight out of the Oscar Wilde era and The Yellow Book. There is a businesslike crook named Enrico, and there is a beautiful girl named Geronima, who tucks a flower into Jimmy's buttonhole each morning. Soon he becomes known across Rome as "the guide with the flower." With such a cast the story, such as it is, can only be dreamlike and tragicomic...
Music for a Summer Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Flower Drum Song's Anita Ellis and the Metropolitan Opera's Heidi Krall, among others, providing mint-julep entertainment...
...gallery at the museum's show. There Italian-born Harry Bertoia's Wall Piece ($750) melds steel, bronze and phosphor into an elegant decoration. Bertoia makes no claim for it beyond stating he considers it "a few squares arranged in a quiet way around a stand." His Flower ($900) proves he can do a welded screen in the round. It also happens to be more personal: "I had just returned from Italy and was feeling wonderful. The essential feeling I was trying for was to begin at the center and radiate...
Parental Clay. In the France of 1908 -such a well-tended garden that it was almost a crime for a child to pick a flower -the De Beauvoirs tried to maintain rather than seek status. A soso lawyer. Papa was worldly, intelligent and a gifted amateur actor. Convent-bred Mama was pious, temperamentally capricious, and terribly afraid of making a social gaffe. When the couple engaged in loud-voiced wrangles, little Simone was bitterly disillusioned; parents were not gods, but common clay. At eight, the embryo novelist wrote a woefully sentimental saga about The Misfortunes of Marguerite...
...London, Buckingham Palace felt moved to formally deny that the frolicsome Duke of Edinburgh, attending a flower show in Chelsea, had pressed a button that set off a lawn sprinkler, doused two hapless photographers. But some newspapers kept pointing the finger of guilt at Philip. Snarled a London Herald byliner: "I still believe the Duke dunnit...