Evening star., 1961-12-17
BY ANDREA
Contributing Writer

blackmailed by the OAS, the
right wing organization seek
ing to keep Algeria with
France. The group wants her
to pay them S million francs
100000, but she knows well
that they won't dare do her
any. harm, so she refused
even to accept official body
guards.
"Fhey should stay with
Gen. de Gaulle. He needs
them more than I do" she
said: Her little Mexican dog
"Guapa" is enough guard for
her, she thinks.
Very clever of her, for now
she is considered a real hero
inc.
But it is a dogs life for q
normal Parisienne, too! So
much to do at a time, fight a
heavy battle in the crowded
department stores to snatch
some Christmas presents, get
a taxi in the rain, change
and rush to a "vernissage," I"
an opening of an art exhibi-
ton IN one of the 100 GAL
leries Or bookshops on the
left bank of the Seine River.
Sagan Play
Or be dressed and fit for
sophisticated dinner talk. A
dinner talk about the new
Francoise Sagan play. Les
Violons, Parfois :" (The
'Violtns, Sometimes }
where the main actress,
Marie Bell. wears $250,OOO
worth of jewels on the stage.
It's important to know the
dinner talk concerning the
eternal feminine topic: FASH
ion. A young Italian cou-
turfer, freshly imported from
Rome, gets the main atten-
ton. Roberto Capucci, 81, is
settling himself in the Rue
Cambon. He wants to kill the
black dress. the elegant
woman should have only one!
He wants to introduce col
ors again for every time of
the~day, and he wants to use
real silk and real wool. At
the.naoment he is looking for
eight slender models able to
walk like duchesses, for his
intention is to dress the
Pafisienne like the elegant
Roman aristocracy.
Will Italy really conquer
the Paris couture? 1t seems
that Latin America gets its
part. too. Serge Malta has
imported his new star model
from Chill, a genuine Inca
girl called "Hualpa, and
some hairstylistS are trying
an Inca hairdo.
Spring Suits
On her hectic wandering
through the city the Parish
enne can already get a
glimpse of the new spring
suits Cin pastel colors) being
photographed for the next
fashion magazines. Two very
chic suits have been seen
facing the afternoon traffic
- one red, one green - with
big matching felt hats. The
poor girls were shivering.
And what will the dance be
in the coming spring? Not
the twist again? But its so
slimming, even if there is no
room to dance it properly at
its headquarters, "Chez Re
gine" (where it gets harder
to get into every day, since
there are always about so
people outside trying to crash
the door,.
But Latin America seems to
step in here, too: Uruguay
sent a new dance, the Coim-
bra, which will be inaugurated
on New Years eve in the
French mountain clubs.
Will it succeed or will the
tango come back, as some
initiated specialists promise?
To give the intimate dance
another chance if Regime is
too crowded, where should
one go after dinner? To the
Dolce Vita" where Antenor
Patino gave a big reception
recently with the Tout
Paris" dancing the twist in
black tie and Dior dresses or
to the Club st. Germain des
Pres, where Crown Princess
Beatrix of the Netherlands
has danced a whole evening
with her friends?
The Americans
And there are all the Amer
leans to see with their
Christmas parties and
Christmas ideas. With 5000
of them mot counting the
students) living in Paris, it's
hard to see at least some
of them. And hundreds are
here to do some Christmas
shopping among their more
serious business. Senator
Kenneth Keating, for in
stance, who stays at the
Ritz; Edith Platter may come
through town on her way to
her Vienna Christmas vaca-
ton and Gladys Tartiere will
stop here Tor some shopping.
It's a dogs life and it
would be easier to be a dog
in Paris now, especially a Dali
nation. After the Walt Dis
ney movie. they are very
much in demand and those