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...reality in the manner of Luigi Pirandello. As the film begins, the seducer with seeming sincerity reminds the young woman that they have met before. With seeming sincerity she says she cannot remember when. Why, it was only a year ago, he says reproachfully, and at this very same spa-or was it at Friedrichsbad? Or was it at Marienbad? Wherever it was, they met and-can she really have forgotten?-fell in love. She says he must be joking. He insists he isn't, and begins to remind her of things he says they said, things he says...
...cold and snowing as French President Charles de Gaulle stepped out of his plane from Paris and headed down the icy highway by car for the quiet Black Forest spa of Baden-Baden. Military helicopters whirred overhead, and heavily armed police patrolled the streets. At last De Gaulle's Citroen limousine drew up to Brenner's Park Hotel. Out he stepped to shake hands with the smiling friend who awaited him, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
Finding his career in banking somewhat "constricting," Britain's Viscount Eden of Royal Leamington Spa, 31, sportive bachelor son of the ex-Prime Minister, bounded off into a new enterprise-a London tourist agency. For fees ranging up to $300 weekly, the former swain of Princess Alexandra was Cooking up services ranging from auto renting to ticket broking, and an added come-on for visiting Yanks: "Introductions to the right people...
...Life (book by Fay and Michael Kanin; music and lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz) is one of those musicals that seem to spring from back numbers of the National Geographic. It is full of scenic wonders-a Carlsbad spa with fountains spouting real water, a Christmas vision of Old Vienna filigreed in confectioner's icing, a wedding extravaganza such as only Broadway angels can afford. In and about these Oliver Smith settings cavort the Wiener Burger, garbed by Lucinda Ballard in resplendent turn-of-the-century costumes. Unfortunately, there is little more to this comic operetta than...
...Peppermint Lounge and its Twist might well have remained just another flesh spa for the midtown beatnik crowd had it not been for the sharp eye of New York Journal-American Society Editor "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini), who somehow spotted a few members of the smart set slumming there one night. No sooner did Cholly break the news in his gossip column than the Peppermint Lounge became an instant fad. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose...