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...spent the rest of his life vainly trying to imitate himself, died in 1956 without having produced another success. In this performance by the Paris Opéra-Comique, an excellent cast is headed by Soprano Berthe Mommart, whose light-textured voice fits the title role like a sheer Dior gown...
Sister Confessors From a chauffeured yellow Cadillac convertible in front of the San Francisco Chronicle building last winter stepped a shapely brunette wearing a little black dress by Dior and the scrutable smile of a woman who knows what she wants. Ushered into Sunday Editor Stanleigh Arnold's third-floor office. Mrs. Morton ("Popo") Phillips announced that the paper's advice-to-the-lovelorn column had gone from drab to worse. "Why." she protested prettily, "I know I could do better myself." Editor Arnold suggested that she try, handed his visitor a six-week sheaf of columns...
...little valley, tried the Olympia Ski Jump, which drops a perilous 200 ft., hurtled 1,346 yds. down the ice-banked Cresta Run, one of the world's first artificial toboggan slides (built 1884) at better than a mile a minute. Evenings, the women doffed ski suits for Dior and Balenciaga gowns, and bobsledders slid into tails to mambo through the night. Others simply spent their time quietly breathing-for St. Moritz' crystal-clear air has 18% less oxygen than sea-level air, forces visitors to breathe deeper and faster, bringing color to pallid cheeks...
Arriving in Manhattan for a showing of his spring creations. Paris Dressmaker Christian Dior let slip a few shapes of things to come. What next year's chic woman will look like, according to the edict of the Dioracle: her skirt will be "just a bit longer," her dress hues often favoring "toast to caramel" shades, her hat smaller, in order to show more of her face...
...picked up a French model will act like a perfect gentleman. To this suppositious premise, Producer-Writer-Director Norman (Dear Ruth) Krasna devotes 102 Technicolored minutes of debate. The affirmative is passionately upheld by Olivia de Havilland, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to France, who archly masquerades as a Dior mannequin to prove her point. The negative is defended by Adolphe Menjou, who plays a U.S. Senator determined to have Paris declared off limits to G.I.s, presumably on the grounds that it is too good for them...