"Well, the blow has fallen," mourned Elsa Maxwell, columning from the Riviera. "Maurice Chevalier is going to be married." But even if he was,* Elsa could bear up. There were lots of lovely people on the Riviera, many from Hollywood.
Not that Hollywood outshone the rest. Cabled one Riviera correspondent last week: "Nobody goggles at Rita Hayworth's body among the hundreds of slim, tanned bathing beauties, or at Tyrone Power's muscles alongside the bronzed Apollos." The cinema people were enjoying relative anonymity.
Lana Turner was seeing Cannes with Husband Bob Topping and Glamor Boy...