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...France, where literature can be a hot front-page issue, the biggest story of the week-and the year's liveliest press brawl -raged around the blonde head of an eight-year-old poetess. Was little Minou Drouet a genius or a fraud...
...Artist-Poetess-Actress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, was signed up by a sometime escort, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank (The Tender Trap) Sinatra, to make her movie debut as leading lady in Star-Producer Sinatra's first Western, Johnny Concho. In the script, Gloria will snap at Frankie: "I'll marry you only when you grow up!" At week's end, Gloria, who married long-maned Maestro Leopold Stokowski in 1945 when he was 63 and bore him two sons, flew to Juarez and signed off as his wife...
With a slender volume of 27 verses, titled Love Poems (World; $2.50) and dedicated cryptically to "S* and the search," sometime Actress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, officially blossomed as a sometime (i.e., printed) poetess. Sample titles from her "diary of feelings": my heart is a wild wave, Snow tenderly in city dawn, honey bees in our eaves, happiness a wing ding . . . is. Excerpts: "he kissed me through a glass closed window /I ... tried to remember as the glass shattered / that this was freedom instead of death"; "the heart is a circle / shaped like a cross . . . / a mold of lava...
...London, Britain's dagger-eyed, razor-brained Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, baptized an Anglican, decided at a ripe 67 on a change of church. Kneeling in London's (Jesuit) Immaculate Conception Church, Dame Edith was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Said Convert Sitwell humbly: "I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy...
Since Britain's doughty Poetess Dame Edith (Façade) Sitwell, 68, and Cinemactress Marilyn (The Seven Year Itch) Monroe, 29, met in Hollywood last year, Dame Edith's life has not been the same. Intrigued by the incongruity of the two ladies, the world's press thenceforth gleefully linked their names on the least pretext. Last week, Dame Edith was asked about Marilyn again, reached the end of her rope, cried: "If I hear that young woman's name again I shall shriek! Being a polite and, I hope, chivalrous woman, I said...