Word: venetian
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Last week sleek yachts bobbed at anchor in Venice's lagoon as the guests arrived, accompanied by a swarm of reporters, rubbernecks and still hopeful last-minute invitation seekers. Cinemactress Irene Dunne, arriving by air to attend the Venetian film festival, came ready with a special red velvet costume, just in case. It took the best efforts of Hollywood pressagentry to wangle her an invitation just an hour before the party began. Perle Mesta, reputedly bidless, told reporters firmly: "I want it understood that I am not going...
...motorboats. Floodlights limned the arriving guests while gapers gawked from windows made available by neighboring palace owners at up to 80,000 lire a head. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among the invited, never showed up. Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lido, stayed home. The Aga Khan (in Venetian domino), Barbara Hutton (dressed as Mozart, at a reputed cost of $15,000), Prince and Princess Chavchavadze (whose noble name is pronounced like a sneeze), and practically everyone else who was anybody was there. Shortly before midnight, a flourish of trumpets sounded, and the guests (1,500 in all) were ushered...
...paid for, a free Punch & Judy show, and a contest to see who could climb to the top of a greased pole. There was even some mingling between the two worlds. One reporter spotted Mme. Louis Arpels (her husband is the famed Paris jeweler) dancing with an open-shirted Venetian lad in the courtyard...
...Italian imports spread out over an entire floor of its New York store. More than 25,000 people crowded into the show the first afternoon, were waited on by clerks decked out in Italian costumes, watched Italian craftsmen blowing glass, tooling leather, making ceramics. Other exhibits: a full-size Venetian gondola, models of Columbus' flagship, a reproduction of St. Peter's Church, and a donkey cart (lent by General George C. Marshall, who got it as a present from grateful Sicilians), adorned with paintings of Truman and Marshall...
Benny likes to talk about his business and admits he still has things to learn from his customers. "Water is free at our laundry; we have a Venetian--I mean artesian--well. And water is a big item in laundering. We are able to use more water and don't have to use the heavy chemicals that eat away the threads...