Who is Mark Epernay? That was the literary puzzle of the week on the New Frontier. The "dimension" is defined as the longest span of time that a person's thoughts can remain centered on something other than himself.
Elizabeth Taylor rates three minutes, the Rev. Martin Luther King four hours. Ambassador to India. When a newsman asked him whether he knew Epernay's identity, Galbraith gave a cagey reply: "Who is Epernay?
I have no guesses. I am utterly devoid of literary curiosity. With 2, gallons of simulated rain per minute pouring down, Warner Bros, began shooting My Fair Lady, and plopping gamely into the puddles went Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, that "so deliciously low, so horribly dirty" flower girl who gets brought indoors by Professor Higgins.
Auchincloss and half sister of Jacqueline Kennedy who sent a bouquet, insisted the party go on despite her own recent tragedy. The Auchincloss estate, Hammersmith Farm, was done up in Venetian style, with colored lanterns, a pink marquee on the lawn overlooking Narragansett Bay, Meyer Davis' orchestra in gondolier garb, gondolier hats for the young men and golden masks for the young ladies.
Janet, in a white strapless gown by Dior, looked like a cinch to get invitations to the season's best parties. But a real star always saves up a twinkle or two for her twilight years, and last week sometime Actress Polo Negri, 65, femme fatale of many a silent movie, was back in the news.
