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Died. Louis Felix ("Monsieur Louis") Diat, 72, French-born artist of the kitchen, longtime (1910-51) chef at Manhattan's old Ritz-Carlton Hotel, regarded by gourmets as one of the world's great chefs, creator of Vichyssoise; in Manhattan...
...assignations, and his corporations take care of themselves. While working on a big deal during his annual Paris fling, Casanova Cooper is rudely interrupted by mysterious, wide-eyed Ariane (Audrey Hepburn). His big deal's husband, warns Audrey, lurks with a loaded revolver just outside Cooper's Ritz suite. Thus saved from a drilling, grateful Gary turns his wolfish attentions to Audrey...
...death blow." To appease the hotheads, Franco fired the most violently partisan of the Monarchists, Fernando Súarez de Tangil, Count of Vallellano, but at the same time strengthened the position of other Monarchists in the Cabinet. The jubilant Monarchists later threw a huge party at the Ritz...
...bone-wet chill of winter lifted, and pale sunlight laid shadows of the leafless chestnut trees in fine tracery on the cobbles alongside the Champs Elysees. The swank Ritz cocktail lounge and the grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite...
Poor Fatigay, however, is browbeaten by his fiancée Amy, and falls on evil times. Selling matches outside the Ritz, he is rescued from verminous destitution by Emily, who by now has taken to driving a Hispano-Suiza (an equipage which dates the book to Michael Arlen times). The cute chimp has managed to turn herself into Juanita Spaniola. a ?100-a-week exotic dancer, and her vocabulary is more than 500 words-greater than that of today's J. Fred Muggs...