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Holiday Mood. In London, when the Daily Herald sent a couple of reporters and three homing pigeons to cover a cross-Channel swim, the reporters came home, but the pigeons headed, respectively, for Paris, Marseille and the Riviera...
Frank Jay Gould, youngest son of the late Railroader Jay and oldest living dandy of American expatriates, was having a little trouble at 70 with his wartime hostess on the Riviera. She had hidden him for eight months while the Gestapo sniffed about, declared Mme. Anne Vilbert de Sairigné, and in gratitude her wealthy house guest had written her a handsome check. But when she tried to cash it she found he had stopped payment. So last week she sued for the amount: $400,000. Expatriate Frank avoided the press. A friend spoke for him, though not much...
Last week's most important art show was held not in a museum or gallery but at a county fair. In the French Riviera village of Vallauris, prize examples of the town's two industries, perfume and pottery, were on exhibition, and among the pottery makers, between Pernin and Picault in the catalogue, stood the name of a newcomer-Pablo Picasso...
...Well, the blow has fallen," mourned Elsa Maxwell, columning from the Riviera. "Maurice Chevalier is going to be married." But even if he was,* Elsa could bear up. There were lots of lovely people on the Riviera, many from Hollywood...
...that Hollywood outshone the rest. Cabled one Riviera correspondent last week: "Nobody goggles at Rita Hayworth's body among the hundreds of slim, tanned bathing beauties, or at Tyrone Power's muscles alongside the bronzed Apollos." The cinema people were enjoying relative anonymity...