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...manners became fashionable in big-time tennis after World War I. Suzanne Lenglen and Big Bill Tilden set the style -and the pace. One day on the French Riviera, so the story goes, a hot-tempered Austrian almost outdid everybody when he won a tournament; openly sneering at the tiny silver trophy that was presented to him, he set it down in midcourt and squashed it flat with a roller. Last week, in Paris, tomboyish Patricia Canning Todd, No. 4 among U.S. women players, did her bit to keep the tradition alive...
...last of the French impressionists, Bonnard spent his days putting on canvas the cool and fiery colors that flooded through his eyeglasses. Last year, at 79, he died (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), leaving in his Riviera villa, and in museums all over the world, the glowing fruits of a lifetime's happy labor. Last week a huge Bonnard retrospective exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was offering conclusive proof of the sunlit warmth and size of his achievement...
...paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints. The work told more than all the books on the subject put together, and more than Matisse himself could possibly have explained. The aging master, who doesn't get around much any more, stayed far away, in his villa just outside the little Riviera hill town of Vence, making more pictures...
Vacationing King Gustaf V of Sweden, 89, arrived on the French Riviera all-of-a-piece, pooh-poohed rumors that he had died en route from Stockholm, declared: "I have never been so fit. Despite [my doctor] I shall watch all the tennis tournaments...
Performances will take place in the Agassiz Theatre on the evenings of April 7, 8, 9, and 10, and at a matinee on the afternoon of April 10. Proceeds from the matinee showing will be turned over to the NSA-sponsored Riviera camp for French waifs...