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...Cross Gala last month, the remarkable Josephine Baker, 63, sang for the rich and titled of Riviera society. Most of the well-heeled guests at the charity affair knew the entertainer's depressing story of debts and eviction, an unpleasant irony that was not lost on Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. Since then the couple has contributed 10,000 francs toward a down payment on a new home for Josephine and her "fraternité universelle" -twelve adopted children of all races and nationalities. The St. Louis-born singer and her brood, after losing their chateau in the south...
...pitfalls. "When I was 18," Choreographer George Balanchine. 65, told his charges, "I came here and got sick. Now please don't eat awful stuff like octopus. And don't charge into the water. In fact, don't do anything." Anything, that is, except dance. Prince Rainier and Princess Grace had invited Balanchine's New York City Ballet to Monaco for a week-long festival commemorating the 40th anniversary of the death of Sergei Diaghilev, whose famed Ballets Russes Balanchine choreographed in the 1920s. And for "Mr. B.," whose embroidered cowboy shirts were as outstanding...
...time to leave for the ball, and no matter how she tried, Monaco's Princess Grace could not get into the royal Rolls-Royce without destroying her 2-ft-high headdress. What to do? His Highness Prince Rainier simply ordered a truck, the couple settled onto its carpeted floor, and they chugged off to a Dîner de Têtes at the newly decorated Salon des Amériques in the Monte Carlo Casino. Naturally, the Princess was the center of attention in the towering-12-lb. headdress, constructed of gold wire with gilded latticework decorated with...
...energetic volunteer social worker as well as a society leader. The Agnellis have a couple of palaces and several retreats in the mountains and on the Italian Riviera. They travel among them in their own jet, helicopter and yachts. They socialize with the Henry Fords, Jackie and Ari Onassis, Rainier and Grace, and assorted Rothschilds-that is, when the head of the household is not busy talking Fiat business with Charles de Gaulle or Aleksei Kosygin...
...cars to make the annual 50-mile "Old Crocks' Race," puffed, wheezed and whistled into town, piloted by a collection of antique-car buffs who consider themselves the royalty of the auto world. Appropriately enough, some real royalty was on hand for the proceedings: Monaco's Prince Rainier, at the wheel of a 1903 De Dion Bouton, accompanied by Princess Grace and ten-year-old Prince Albert. With a smile, the Princess admitted that the open car had been a bit chilly and that she had spent most of the eight-hour trip in a more modern conveyance...