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...Similar experiments were going on among the human species. Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra were apparently reconciled after their recent spat and took off, cooing, for London. Marilyn Monroe (see CINEMA), on the other hand, was showing clear signs of cooling in her affections for Joe DiMaggio, while Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan definitely called it quits, with Aly settling a reported $50,000 a year on daughter Yasmin. Aly, reported Rita's lawyer, C. Bartley Crum, had behaved like a thorough cad: "Why, he even complained when she took French lessons...
After a 26-hour train trip from Paris, Rita Hayworth arrived in Madrid, without husband Aly Khan. Escorted by a group of Spanish playboys, Rita drove to a nearby town to watch Spain's No. I bullfighter, Luis Miguel Dominguin. Dominguin dedicated his bull to Rita ("The most beautiful woman in North America"), and Rita rose to acknowledge the honor ("Good luck to the handsomest man in Spain"). After he had killed his target, Dominguin gallantly presented Rita with the ears and the tail of the bull...
...Rita Hayworth, arriving in France on the United States, was driven from Le Havre to Paris in husband Aly Khan's little Austin sedan ("Aly's $1,000 Car Hauls Rita's Million $ Chassis," cracked the New York Daily News). To reporters, anxious to know about a reconciliation with Aly, she said: "I am delighted to be back in Paris ... I want to see lots of dressmakers while I am here." A few days later, Aly drove up from his Cannes villa, joined Rita at his Paris house. He took her on an extensive shopping tour...
Would Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth make up? From coast to coast, it was a burning question for the press...
...disappointed. Rita was not there. Director Charles Vidor, his host for the five-day visit, was waiting with car and chauffeur. Would Aly and Rita . . .? "I hope so," said Aly. "That's what I am here for." Then he drove off to the momentous meeting-dinner at the Hayworth house in Beverly Hills. At word that the dinner was stretching out until 3 a.m., the encircling corps of correspondents and photographers doubled...