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From Paris' ancient gates last week, a steady stream of cars, scooters and motorcycles, with wife or girl mounted behind, poured out of Paris and headed for seashore, mountain, or vacations in Spain (cheaper than the Riviera), Austria, Germany, or even Scandinavia. Before the middle of the month, 2,000,000 of Paris' 5,000,000 inhabitants will have left, and the rest wish they...
...case is pending in a Paris court, it has to wait; the judge is sailing a catboat on the Riviera...
...Catch a Thief (Paramount). Grace Kelly and Cary Grant are sitting in a a runabout at a secluded spot high above the Technicolored Riviera. Radiant Grace turns to Gary, says: "Do you want a breast or a leg?" Gary locks eyeballs with Grace and after a moment replies...
...Wintle was packed off to a staff job in the Middle East. But soon he was turning up at the bar in Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel, sipping a favorite gin concoction called "Suffering Bathwater," sporting an impressive beard, and dropping remarks like "Lovely weather on the Riviera last week." He had launched a career as a spy, impersonating a Vichy officer in occupied France. Caught and jailed in Toulon, Wintle sharply ticked off his guards for their slovenly appearance. He went on a 14-day hunger strike until they agreed to shave. On his third...
...damage starts when Neddy tender considerate husband and rising young English architect, signs up for a 13-month job in Australia and packs Celia and the kids off to Forte dei Marmi on the Italian Riviera. There, at the beginning of a sun-soaked Italian summer, she meets the aging principessa and the principessa's current lover, Arcangelo, though Celia is too innocent to recognize him as such. She is quicker to sense the unsettling effects of the Italians upon her tidy and hitherto strait-laced life. She tries to tell the children's nanny about it: "They...