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...sense of insecurity led to all sorts of adolescent petulance. Once, when he was not invited to a party on the Riviera, he stood behind a hedge and peppered the guests with garbage. Zelda kept right up with him. At a farewell party for Alexander Woollcott, she kicked off her black lace panties and presented them as a go-ing-away present. When budding Novelist Robert Penn Warren praised This Side of Paradise, Scott truculently replied: "You mention that book again and I'll slug...
British Painter Graham Sutherland divides his time and affections between the green downs of Kent and the blue sweep of the Riviera. His paintings have the neatness of one and the brightness of the other. For all that, no one would describe wan, sociable Graham Sutherland's pictures as "nice." He paints twisted roots, withered brambles and bits of sea wrack in a way that makes them look like people in torment...
...almost half a century since the U.S. poetry-reading public first met dangerous Dan McGrew, but Writer Robert W. ("Wullie") Service, 76, was rhyming away the same as ever. At his villa on the Riviera, which has served as his headquarters for the past 24 years, the ruddy, grey-haired Bard of the Yukon said that he expects to live a lot longer ("My hobby is longevity") and do a lot more creating
This summer Eddie Fisher got another chance. Suddenly in need of a replacement, the big Riviera Club across the Hudson from Manhattan called Fisher in, put him on as headline singer...
Coming out on the Riviera's big floor, he sang such ballads as / Wanna Be Loved, Wanderin', There's No Tomorrow, stopped the show. His warm, strong baritone, faintly reminiscent of Tony Martin's, still had the natural flow and phrasing which he had developed by singing in a Philadelphia synagogue, and the unsophisticated delivery which "I got," he says, "from helping dad hawk fruits and vegetables from a truck when I was a kid." When the reviews appeared next morning, Fisher was described as "merely wonderful," "a sensational singing voice and style," "terrific...