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High Twisting. Because of the eternal servant problem, many chalet parties end up at one of the town's three fine restaurants. Newest nightspot, and wildest by far, is Le Chesery, built last year for $575,000 by the Aga's Uncle Sadruddin Khan. Featuring a Cuban band imported from Montparnasse, the club encourages nightlong twisting, and unlike the rival Palace Hotel requires no necktie. The Gstaad old guard are not quite sure they approve; a group of rich young Greeks recently brawled over a girl at a Chesery party, ended by stripping her to her black lace...
...leggy Lido chorus girls were competing for the Duke of Windsor's attention, and whatever Countess Mona von Bismarck, 65, was blaring in his ear seemed urgent too. But the Duke, as well as the photographers covering the Paris nightspot's new revue, found it hard not to focus on such a well-turned-out fashion plate as the Countess Marie Aline de Figueroa, 41, the American-born wife of the Spanish Count of Quintanilla...
...film still tells essentially the same story: Chinese girl (Miyoshi Umeki), a "picture bride" from Hong Kong, meets Chinese-American boy (James Shigeta). But boy loves Chinese-American girl (Nancy Kwan), a nightspot stripper who wants to cover her nakedness with greenbacks. In the end, true love triumphs in a large, vulgar Chinese wedding...
...rest of the country the phenomena that spring up around the space age's launching pads: beatniks swinging as if hooked on liquid oxygen, splashy motels by the mile, a real estate agent selling outback lots for $1,595 an acre, a wiggly blonde singing in a nightspot about her A-O.K. flight in a rocket with her spaceman. Then he switched to Britain's cheap-jack sex-and-crime newspapers and an abrasively candid interview with Cecil Harmsworth ("I'm a highbrow") King, publisher of London's Daily Mirror...
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paramount). Holly Golightly, as Truman Capote described her in his peekaresque short story, was a sort of sophisticated migratory worker. She traveled from nightspot to nightspot, giving pleasure where she pleased, digging gold where she found it. Pleasure and pay never stood in a direct relation, but when Holly asked for powder-room money, she generally...