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...playing fields of Eton but at London amuse ment parks and movie lots. The son of a sewing-machine repairman, Matchan parlayed a modest talent for figures and an immodest one for braggadocio into a youthful career as a "financial ad viser" to showfolk. At 25, he landed a bookkeeping job with Max Factor when the U.S. cosmetics maker entered the British market. In twelve years, Mat chan 1) helped wash away the prewar Victorian notion that lipstick was not for English ladies, and 2) became the company's European general manager...
Last week he surprised New York showfolk by hosting a post-premiere party after Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme opened at the Waldorf-Astoria. He was as ill at ease as he is cool on the air, and his eyes twitched noticeably before he and Joanne finally called it a night, long before many of his guests had left...
...seminar on Anglo-American af fairs at Ditchley Park in England.* By the time he returned at the end of last week, he had touched down in London, Paris, Bonn and Rome; he had talked with prime ministers and foreign ministers, Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul, students and showfolk and assorted beautiful people. With an eye to future change, he saw opposition leaders too. Bobby also wanted to meet Mai Van Bo, the North Vietnamese envoy in Paris, but U.S. embassy officials dissuaded...
Resurgent Sun Valley, Idaho, the nation's oldest ski resort, has always been popular with the Hollywood set; on hand for the holidays were such showfolk as Art Linkletter, Director William Wyler, Crooner Andy Williams and Composer Henry Mancini. Most visible by virtue of sheer numbers: Bobby and Ethel and seven of their nine children, staying in a five-bedroom cottage across from the Lodge. Bobby, who skis with more passion than poise, latched onto a group of teen-age girl racers, delighted them by setting the pace on a fast down hill run. Son Joseph...
Fiddler is sweet in spirit, true in tone, and its shawled, long-skirted women and bearded, black-hatted men look more like folk than showfolk. Jerome Robbins' dances are closer to the soil than to concrete, and a male wedding dance with empty wine bottles perched on the men's hats is a tingling display of rigid torsos and agile Slavic slides...