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...removal of decorative railings and pinnacles, necessitated after discovery of dangerous weaknesses in 1945, precipitated a storm of local comment which reached its highest pitch when one irate alumnus described the process as comparable to "drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa...
...Enfants affords U.S. moviegoers a good, long look at several of France's outstanding actors: Jean-Louis Barrault (a graceful, desperate-faced pantomimist currently playing on the Paris stage in André Gide's translation of Hamlet), bouncy Pierre Brasseur and Arletty, a sort of healthy, worldly Mona Lisa who exudes a mature type of sex appeal that Hollywood has always ignored...
...Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
When Faustina Setti, 50-year-old frugal spinster, plunked down her savings (30,000 lire) on the promise that the poetess would find her a mate, Mona Leonarda proffered a glass of drugged wine, then felled the spinster with a hatchet, chopped her into nine pieces, and kept the change...
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa...