At Manhattan's annual Renaissance for Italian Youth Ball, the seasons were elegantly personified in a maypole pageant by Janet Neff (summer), wife of Investment Broker Joseph A. Neff; Lydia Melhado (autumn), wife of Investment Broker Frederick Melhado; and Viscountess de Rosière (winter), Ohio-born wife of French-born Jewelry Sales Executive Viscount Paul de Rosière. Gentle spring: evergreen Actress Joan Fontaine. Commented Cosmetics Entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden from her ringside table at the Plaza Hotel benefit: "We had all forgotten that charity can be such fun."
Word leaked out last week that a new game, donated...