Word: polignacs
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...Societe des Bains de Mer, which owns both the casino and the Hotel de Paris, decided not to charge the sheiks for their rooms. "It was the least we could do," said an official. But Prince Louis de Polignac, chairman of the board of the S.B.M., was less sanguine about all the publicity. "Gamblers are like Swiss bankers," he said. "They love discretion. When a gambler gets unwanted publicity, he goes somewhere else...
...seem for a casino operator to run in the red, S.B.M. did just that in two recent years, and barely broke even in another. But now the wheel of fortune has spun to the black again. A few days ago, S.B.M.'s president, jovial little Prince Louis de Polignac, announced a profit of $2.5 million for the year ended last March 31 and a 40% rise in the price of S.B.M. stock, to $15.50. No one was more pleased than his third cousin, Prince Rainier, known to Americans as the husband of elegant Movie Star Grace Kelly. Prince Rainier...
...almost forgotten Prince of Monaco, Pierre de Polignac, was greeted at Los Angeles' International Airport by his renowned son and ruler of the vest-pocket principality, Prince Rainier III. Prince Pierre had come to see Rainier's fiancee. Cinemactress Grace Kelly, and to help plan the April wedding strategy. Meanwhile, on a nearby movie set, Grace rested between scenes of her new film High Society, looking startlingly thin in an unflattering classic-cut bathing suit. Was this a new New Look? Roving U.P. Columnist Gloria Swanson thought so and hailed it. From Rome ex-Screen Siren Swanson cabled...
...Rainier's own time the path to the throne has been tortuous. Princess Charlotte, Rainier's mother, obtained a divorce from her husband, French Count Pierre de Polignac, in 1933, and renounced her rights to the throne in favor of her son Rainier. Later, Polignac attempted to kidnap his son, who was then a schoolboy in England, but doughty old Prince Louis won custody in a bitter battle in a London court, and Rainier remained the heir apparent. In 1949, three years after marrying an aging actress, Prince Louis died, leaving his 24 titles, his considerable bank account...
...French Ambassador to Rome, Cardinal de Polignac, was the first to take Pannini under his wing. He commissioned the grateful painter to portray him standing in St. Peter's. Later Pannini painted Charles III of Spain in the same setting. Sometimes, even after his reputation was assured, the artist would not refuse to turn an honest penny by decorating a villa, or whipping up cardboard clouds, fountains and triumphal arches for a sumptuous private fete. But apart from these somewhat theatrical preoccupations, most of Pannini's 74 years were spent among the monuments of a greater age, which...