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...blowsy grey trousers. As usual, he did not smile, ignored his opponents, spoke only to his plump, wealthy Argentine wife who followed him around as his official marker. He commanded the largest gallery, and treated the crowd to a three-under-par 70. Then he was whisked back to swank Rosack's Marine Hotel for a massage...
Paris, traditionally the place where the talented young wild men go, is actually an old man's paradise. Last week art lovers crowded the swank Galerie Charpentier in Faubourg Saint-Honore, to see 100 topflight examples of the contemporary "Paris School." Of the 52 painters in the show, about a dozen were dead. The average age of the living...
...London's swank West End auto showrooms, the proprietor flicked a bit of fluff from his immaculate morning coat. Said he blithely: "Shocking, of course, but perfectly aboveboard...
Concierges of Neuilly's swank apartment houses proselytize domestic servants. In workers' districts party propaganda does not shy from argot, but Sorlin takes care that his organizers mind their grammar and diction, lest bourgeois members be offended...
...Night in Casablanca (United Artists) restores the Marx Brothers to the screen, which has been deprived of their irreplaceable weirdness for five years. Groucho is the rattily natty new manager of a swank North African hotel in which the Nazis have cached French art treasures. Chico knows all about the rival lines of camels, yellow and checkered, which take tourists around. Harpo is valet to the hyperpunctilious Nazi (Siegfried Ru-mann) who is trying to escape to South America with...