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...Easy at 20." On view were paintings as rich and carefully tended as a French vegetable garden: romantic scenes of a tiny village huddled in the hills, a lush tree-carpeted mountainside, a sparkling bay near the artist's home at St. Tropez on the Riviera. All were drawn with consummate skill, lovingly done in muted greens, earthy browns and greys. Segonzac was pleased by the success of his new paintings. Said he: "It is easy to show traces of genius at the age of 20, but it is difficult to still have talent when...
...about his writer: 20th Century Fox uses them only to sneak in one colossal scene after another. Thick and fast they come: Gregory Peck by the Seine, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner at the bullfights and in the Spanish civil war, Gregory Peck and Hildegarde Neff splashing about the Riviera, Gregory Peck, friendly natives, and several hippopotami in an African river. All this is interpolated into a clinical, wince-by-wince history of the progress of Peck's gangrene. By the time things really look black for Peck, one has only the impression that if he was really so unhappy...
Last week La Sibylle, commanded by 32-year-old Lieut. Gustave Curot, was assigned the duty of fighting a mock landing on the Riviera. La Sibylle submerged, and surface ships of the French Mediterranean Squadron followed her course on Asdic detectors for an hour. Then they lost...
Winston Churchill & wife returned to London from a two-week holiday on the Riviera, traveled to the Ascot Heath race track a few days later, got there just in time to see his filly, Loving Cup, finish next to last in the Kensington Palace Stakes...
...French Riviera, Auto Heir Horace E. Dodge Jr., 51, gave some expensive publicity to sometime Actress Gregg Sherwood, 26, whose announcement last year that they would get married was pooh-poohed by Dodge as just an attempt to get more free publicity. On the terrace of the Palm Beach Casino-where 40 guests enjoyed mounds of orchids ($15 each), 60 lbs. of ice-encased caviar and a $1,000 display of fireworks-Horace presented his platinum-blonde friend with a $4,290 gold bracelet (her collection of gewgaws from Dodge already includes a $3,000 gold cigarette lighter...