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Cinema: Relative Anonymity

"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.

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