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Love Is a Ball reaches way back to those zany rich-girl-marries-chauffeur comedies of the '30s for its plot. To give Ball new bounce, Director David Swift (The Parent Trap] has transferred the action to the Riviera, hustled in a bagful of props: a pink yacht with matching luggage, a custard-cake skyscraper for dessert, a floating baby grand for the pool. But to keep this kind of souffle inflated is primarily up to a bubbly blonde. Hope Lange. She is the chauffeur-chasing American heiress who keeps a sports-car engine in her bedroom, a collection...
...Riyadh, the desert capital of Saudi Arabia, nervous courtiers have become accustomed to keeping one eye out for signs of revolt inspired by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one eye on the latest dispatches from the French Riviera. There, ailing King Saud, 61, is installed in Nice's gleaming Hotel Negresco in 55 rooms on the fifth floor with his veiled wives, concubines, a passel of offspring, courtiers and maids. Last week the rumors were flying along the Côte d'Azur that the dyspeptic Saud was sick unto death...
Carnival in Rio is the wildest, the biggest, the craziest mass blast in the world. There are no other contenders, say the cariocas. New Orleans' Mardi Gras? That is for the tourists. The Riviera? Fine, if you like floats. Valencia? Nice fireworks and bullfights. Fasching? Mostly indoors-besides, those Germans get conscience stricken and go home at dawn...
...time, but next year I'm going to take it all year. It's such trouble having to store my ski clothes." In addition to the fulltime chalet dwellers (most of whom maintain at least one other home base, ranging in location and social prestige from the Riviera to Florida), Gstaad harbors a large class of doting parents who, having shipped off their children to nearby prep schools such as Le Rosey and Montesano, like to stick around within visiting distance for a term...
There, consoled by his two favorite wives and a monthly pension of $1,500, Krim languished for 21 years. In 1947 France relented and let Krim board a ship for the Riviera, where he would be under house arrest. The 65-year-old rebel jumped ship as it was passing through the Suez Canal, and was granted political asylum in Egypt...