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...legs, John Barrymore's profile, Shirley Temple's seven-year-old scrawl ("Love to the World") and his ex-Wife Ava Gardner's feet, Singer Frank Sinatra, 49, knelt, did the old Hollywood salaam and planted his palms in the wet concrete beside the rococo Grauman's Chinese Theater. Then Frank struck a Jolsonesque pose for Daughters Nancy and Tina and about 3,000 faithful who turned up for the messy rites, some of them dangling from the limbs of trees...
Around the L.B.J. ranch, folks stroll along "Friendship Walks." They are paths of cement squares inscribed with the signatures of the rich and the famous who have caught the President's fancy on visits to the 400-acre spread. The walk, a sort of presidential version of Grauman's Chinese Theater forecourt, already includes the names of John Kennedy, all seven original U.S. astronauts, and Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Last week, in a favorite ranch ritual, Lyndon added two new ones as Mexico's President-elect Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Wife Guadalupe stooped...
...Days at Peking. The year is 1900. In a dragon-encrusted ballroom reminiscent of the lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theater, David Niven, the British ambassador to Peking, is throwing a diplomatic ball to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. The music stops, and there is a shiver of terror: a brocaded sedan chair brings Prince Tuan, complete with jeweled-gold fingernail scabbards and about as welcome as Dr. Fu Manchu at a meeting of the A.M.A. Prince Tuan (ex-dancer Robert Helpmann) is the leader of the "Fists of Righteousness" (known as Boxers in the occidental press), those...
Radiant and wiggly in a silk dress and smiling sweetly at 700 howling fans, Sophia Loren, in that most hallowed of Hollywood rites, pressed her palms into the gooey cement before Grauman's Chinese Theater. She followed up with her footprints, pressed in with a twist, and then as a fillip below her signature, scrawled an Italian motto: Solo per sempre−only forever...
...bandits, Tibbett grew up in Los Angeles, sang in the high school glee club, earned small fees singing at funerals. After serving in World War I, he embarked on a professional acting career, but soon found himself singing the musical prologues to silent films at Hollywood's old Grauman Theater. On borrowed money he traveled to New York, auditioned for the Met twice before he was signed to a $60-a-week contract. He was just 26, and it was not until two years later that his name hit the headlines in Falstaff...