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Never Twice. The goddesses of St. Trop are Brigitte Bardot and Franchise Sagan, both of whom were holding court there last week. The men wear shorts and rope sandals; the women, with or without Bardot's dimensions, wear floppy white hats, brightly colored loose shirts, and pastel trousers so tight that they look as though they had been stuck on. Their feet are bare and bronzed. The czarina of fashion is a waterfront couturiere named Madame Vachon who employs a whole army of peasant girls to sew and cut and iron the simple summer uniforms of the chic. Like...
...days," said Françoise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan, "it will get better.'' That was five months ago in Monte Carlo, and since then Françoise's ballet Le Rendez-Vous Manque (The Broken Date) has been panned from Switzerland to Scollay Square. Nevertheless, it has the gift of survival. Last week Manhattan balletomanes got a chance...
...Sagan's story for Broken Date involves the trials of a confused young man who sits in his Paris apartment waiting for his assignation with a married American woman. When she fails to appear by 2 a.m., he decides that she has flown back to her husband in New York, lets himself be seduced in a bathroom by a sulphurous blonde in a purple cashmere pullover who has wandered into his place with a crowd of hipsters. Then he suffers the pangs of remorse that any real Frenchman would presumably feel at being unfaithful to another...
...said the New York Times's John Martin, "seems to be that in France sexe is a four-letter word." It seemed as good an explanation as the one offered by Date's creators at its premiere. Explained Composer Magne, 28: "It recalls my youth." Said Novelist Sagan, 22: "It recalls my youth...
Durable Boulevardier Maurice Chevalier, 69, confessed that he did not understand the younger generation, frowned especially at sad-eyed, bedroomy Novelist Franchise Sagan: "I do not follow that kind of mentality. I cannot understand how it is to be young, in good health, to have talent and money, to be attractive-if with these five blessings you are unhappy, then what do you want? The only thing left is to commit suicide...