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...MENTON (Aug. 1-24) on the French Riviera. Chamber music in the square of St. Michel's Church pleases the ear while a breathtaking view of the port and nearby lemon groves fascinates...
...MENTON (Aug. 1-25), on the French Riviera, mixes chamber music with the murmur of the sea. Performances are held in the centuries-old square of St. Michel's Church, which affords a panoramic view of the surrounding lemon groves and the port. Highlights include concerts by Pianists Byron Janis and Van Cliburn and a Schubert recital by Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf...
Sutherland, 60, searches for what he calls "emotional paraphrases of reality." He sketches while roaming the English countryside or the foothills of the French Maritime Alps near his home in sunny Menton. But he says: "Can you imagine anything more boring than painting mountain gorges?" And what emerges on canvas, as recollected in his studio, is less like Turner than the work of his close friend Francis Bacon, the painter of screaming popes. Sutherland's is a world that bristles with spiky artichokes and cacti or the angular postures of grasshoppers and mantises...
Near the French Riviera town of Menton, a photographer approached a pretty, sex-hexed celebrity, and asked to take her picture. "Leave me in peace," was the reply. "I'm going to die anyway." A few hours later, Brigrrte Bardot made an apparently serious-and heavily headlined -attempt to die. In the garden of a friend's pink villa, a vineyard keeper found Brigitte unconscious beside a well. In the beam of his flashlight he saw Brigitte: "Her eyes were closed, her teeth slightly parted, and her arms were red with blood." It was her 26th birthday...
...most crowded August yet in the 100-year history of the French Riviera, a place which in Queen Victoria's day thought itself a winter resort. From Menton on the Italian border all along the beautifully indented 165-mile coast to La Ciotat outside Marseille, the sunlit Côte d'Azur was jammed with a half-million vacationing Frenchmen and hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists...