HARPER'S BAZAAR PRESENTS: RICHARD AVEDON - AUDREY HEPBURN - MEL FERRER - PARIS PURSUIT

ANGUS & JULIA STONE - PAPER AEROPLANE

HARPER'S BAZAAR - PARIS PURSUIT

SEPTEMBER 1959

SCENE: GARE DU NORD




JEMIMA:  Monsieur, Je suis ravie d'avoir fait votre connaissance. J'espere tant vos revoir. A bientot, a tout a l'heure...


DALLAS: (to himself)  Goldernit, ignorance is a rope around your neck! Me meeting a pretty little pinto like this'n, and can't understand a word of the lingo




Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer - Audrey is wearing Dior's grey flannel turned under at a deep knee band.

Buster Keaton waits with luggage by Vuitton, Hermes. 

SCENE: OUTSIDE GARE DU NORD


JEMIMA: Oh Simone, Simone, what a ring-a-ding divine guy! Why do I always have to be such a show-off and a fool?  What devil drives me!  Why did I pretend to be French!


Audrey Hepburn wears Nina Ricci white coat carved in Garigue wool fleece

DALLAS:  Giddayap, Thunderbrow,  hit the trail for the Ritz!


Audrey Hepburn wears Nina Ricci's puff-sleeved peplum suit wrapped with a 5" cinch

SCENE:  THE RITZ


CONCIERGE:  Je m'excuse, Monsieur Thunderbrow, but we have not the suites avec le weegwam.


DALLAS: (to himself)   Can't kick that cute little palomino out of my head. How's a man gonna' corral one French filly in a herd of them as big as this?

JEMIMA:  Don't cry, Simone. Seven feet of Texas can't disappear, not even in Paris. We'll just go out and find him.


Audrey Hepburn wears Dior's puffed tunic skirt in a bare-armed dinner dress worn with a matching jacket

DALLAS:  You must know her. Sure you know her. Anybody'd know her.  Why, you'd know her by her eyes!


Audrey Hepburn wears Dior

SCENE:  LE COMMISSARIAT DE POLICE


JEMIMA:  Well, no, he hasn't committed a crime. No, he's not my husband. He isn't even a friend.  Not really.  Not exactly.  I want to find him because...just because...because, golly.  I guess he's the man I love.


Audrey Hepburn wears Cardin

SCENE:  MAXIM'S ON FRIDAY NIGHT


JEMIMA:  I  hope you don't think I'm that kind of girl or anything.  The only reason I spoke to you, without really knowing you, is, well... there's something about you that reminds me of someone.


Audrey Hepburn wears Dior's white crystallized puffed tunic silhouette

SCENE:  MOULIN ROUGE, SAME NIGHT


1st COCOTTE:  ( speaking to Thunderbrow)  Je m'excuse, Monsieur, but here they do not serve la Prairie Oyster!

2nd COCOTTE: ( ZSA ZSA GABOR)  Why do you go on speaking about this one girl with her eyes! Come along , bebe, we'll show you eyes - and lips - and legs.  We'll show you le vrai Paris!


Zsa Zsa Gabor wears Heim

IT WAS SATURDAY.  THEN IT WAS SUNDAY.  THE DAYS WENT BY AS IN A DREAM

Audrey Hepburn wears Cardin's drop waist belted tunic and  Guy Laroche's doublet-paneled tunic dress

EVERYWHERE JEMIMA WENT, AND EVERYWHERE SHE LOOKED...

Audrey Hepburn wears Michel Goma and Cardin

Audrey Hepburn wears Dior and Chanel

China Machado  wears Gres Great-collared greatcoat and  Cardin's pale faille evening dress

SCENE:  UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER

DALLAS:  We've been camping under this oil derrick for six days now.  Guidebook said it was the crossroads of Paris, and still no sign of her.  Pack up, Thunderbrow, let's blow this town and climb the highest mountain we can find! 

JEMIMA:  We may as well give up.  I guess I'm just doomed to be one of those spinsters wo lives alone and feeds cats.  Oh dear, I am sorry, Simone.  I didn't mean to be mean.  I just don't know any more what I'm saying or doing!  We'll leave today, now, quickly, go where there's nothing but skies and peace.


Audrey Hepburn wears Chanel's gold-etched pullover

SCENE:  THE ITALIAN ALPS


Audrey Hepburn wears Patrick de Barentzen

MEL FINDS AUDREY HIGH ON A MOUNTAIN TOP

Audrey Hepburn wears Antonio de Luca's Peruvian tunic wedding dress

THE END

RICHARD AVEDON

AUDREY HEBURN

MEL FERRER

BUSTER KEATON

ZSA ZSA GABOR

ANNETTE STROYBERG

ART BUCHWALD

THE MAGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF DIANE ARBUS

ANGUS AND JULIA STONE - HORSE AND CART

THE FULL CIRCLE   

 Who is i that can tell me who I am?  Shakespeare

MAX MAXWELL LANDAR has become Uncle Sam. It happened that about a year ago a patriotically-named tax advisory service conceived the notion of advertising itself by means of a sandwich man in an Uncle Sam costume, so they had a red white and blue suit made at a cost of $175 and hired a tall Negro man to appear in it: but a week had hardly passed before some goons drove up and threatened to beat him up if he didn't quit, so he did. Somehow Max inherited the job and the suit, which so well becomes him, although it is too large, that his dreams inhabit it too. He has worn it professionally as sandwichman to a barber shop, a pen company and an exterminating service, but chiefly he wears it to advertise himself.  

  Says Max, "Last year this time I was nobody, now I'm somebody.... I am what I call a Personality... without a doubt the youngest 80-year-old man in the world... my beard is now like Bernard Shaw's, even if it doesn't grow it's out of this world, and my face is interesting... when I'm ready I'll be Buffalo Bill from the back... I've got the greatest laugh in the country and the world... I am writing my life story which will be similar to Mission To Moscow which Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote... I am a soprano-contralto, the greatest singer in the world today and I have the voice of a man, woman and child... I'm going to Hollywood... there is no question about it: I'm going to be rich and famous... I can prolong the life of the leukemia victims of the world and Eleanor Roosevelt and Bob Hope will take care of cancer... I am ordering Congress what to do and I'm sure I'll have a meeting with Kennedy... I am a Phenomenon... M...E...ME!"

Max lives on the Lower East Side with his dedicated Negro servant Georgia, trudges the streets, tireless as the seven dwarfs, stopping traffic with his imperious hand and repeating his name to anyone who will listen or even to anyone who won't. He says he is the first person authorized to be Uncle Sam since 1812 and he plans to bring the Liberty Bell to New York. He took me to Washington for the Inauguration, walking from one end of the train to the other the entire way, proclaiming his mission. The plan was for me to photograph him being The First Man to Shake the Hand of Dwight D. Eisenhower when He Was No Longer President, but we couldn't get close enough. Instead we slept on benches in Union Station; he sold leftover campaign souvenirs inscribed "Kennedy Will Win" to finance the trip home; and he climbed the Washington Monument in a blizzard, all 898 steps of it, in 48 minutes, solemnly delivering his oration to George Washington at the bottom, for an audience of the five guards and me. He sometimes suddenly imitates Shirley Temple, and he can simultaneously eat a doughnut and sing without moving his lips. At Christmastime I helped him buy several editions of a plastic Nativity Scene at Liggetts for 99 cents, which he sent to the Kennedy's for their newborn son and to Clarke Gable's widow for the forthcoming child. He is planning to send something to the Pope and to Cardinal Spellman, too. Max is a master optimist. "God is good to me," he said once. "Unless I die I can make a lot of money, and of course," he added shrewdly, "if I die, you've got something."

Harper's Bazaar November 1961
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