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...duenna of young lovers, Actress Merle Oberon, 47, has been a smashing success. Look what happened after she chaperoned Frankie and Mia. Now Merle and her husband, Industrialist Bruno Pagliai, have another pair to encourage: Lynda Bird Johnson, 22, and George Hamilton, 27, who flew to Acapulco to spend a private vacation at the Pagliais' seaside villa. A small army of reporters and photographers besieged the villa, and another army of guards kept the newsmen at bay. A truce was arranged, with George assembling the press and laying down the ground rules. "There will be no answer...
...when Lynda and George visited Manhattan. One night they dined at "21," attended a penthouse party for Actress Ruth Ford after her Broadway opening in Dinner at Eight, then danced until 1 a.m. at El Morocco. Another evening they dined at Orsini's with Actress Merle Oberon, her husband Bruno Pagliai, and the Henry Fords, afterward returned to El Morocco...
...Bruno Pagliai-Merle Oberon, that is-padded prettily across the rug, with its fanciful design of chimpanzee, parrot and elephant, on her way to the telephone ringing in the bookcase behind a Chinese print. "Yes, darling, I know," she cooed happily. "They say the weather is simply frightful just about everywhere in the world...
...certainly was. But outside her big glass doors the warm sun sparkled on azure water under a cloudless sky. This, in fact, is why Merle Oberon, an actress whose beauty persists, and her husband, a Mexican industrialist, built their new palazzo in Acapulco, the mountain-rimmed bay on the southwest coast of Mexico that claims to have better year-round weather than any place anywhere. And this is why Acapulco is currently in the throes of transition...
...concert tour, Frank announced that he needed a month-long vacation and chartered the Southern Breeze, a 168-ft. yacht owned by Houston Businessman C. W. Edwards, for a reported $2,000 a day. Mostly he asked people his own age-respectable Hollywood matrons such as Claudette Colbert, Merle Oberon, Rosalind Russell, and their husbands. He also invited Mia Farrow, 20-year-old daughter of Actress Maureen O'Sullivan and the late Director John Farrow. The ensuing voyage was probably the most closely watched since Cleopatra floated down the Nile to meet Mark Antony. Frank had been seeing...