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...bullfight, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, getting her first taste of a real Spanish corrida, was carried away by the excitement of it all when the torero, Chicuelo, toured the arena and was showered by a complimentary cascade of hats, cigars and flowers. Hedda whipped off her own ostrich-feather, Parisian cartwheel hat (by Jacques Path) and skimmed it into the bull ring. "I know I threw away a $100 hat," she said, "but I certainly got more than one thousand dollars worth of thrills...
Married. Thomas Dubois Hormel, 23, son of Meatpacker Jay Catherwood (Spam) Hormel, and an art student at Palos Verdes College in Rolling Hills, Calif.; and Simone Mostovoy, 20, onetime Parisian ballerina with the Roland Pettit Ballet; in Las Vegas...
Ryan, with a six-man staff, set up administrative headquarters in the Mayflower Hotel. An army of gardeners dug up rosebushes, chrysanthemums and shrubbery at the Presbreys' spacious place off Connecticut Avenue, and moved them back five feet to make room for a Parisian street scene, complete with sidewalks and sidewalk cafes. Carpenters built a 30-by-50-ft. dance floor over the lawn, covered it with a sideshow tent, which was decorated as and called the Moulin Rouge. Pressrooms, male and female, were set up with tickers and telephones...
Even before it appeared on the stalls, a reminiscent book by a foreign author promised to be a Parisian bestseller. The book: Memoires. The author: Russia's Catherine the Great...
Opening night at the new Parisian-revue Voila glittered with bright stars of the international carriage trade. Trailing white satin, diamonds and lanky Hollywood Cowboy Gary Cooper, French Cinemactress Gisele Pascal showed up without her steady escort, Monaco's Prince Ranier III. Tubby ex-King Farouk shied at photographers ("Please, no pictures. I'm here incognito!"). Oldtime Singer Maurice Chevalier ogled the crowd, happily concluded, "Everybody, but everybody is here tonight...