Paramount World (May 1958 - July 1962)

Paramount world 22 NEPaL NEWS IS I NTEREST FOR "THE MOUNT" h I N BUILDER IS YOUNG" Steadily, week by week, interest nounts in Paramount's upcoming production of the Han Suyin novel, "The Mountain Is Young." The time is almost at hand when Paramount will announce the cast for this picture which is destined to be one of the triumphal creations of I960. NsB&ii's Magic Everything about the Kingdom of Nepal is sheer magic just as everything about "The Mountain Is Young" is likewise destined to be magical. Here is a view of some Nepalese passing by the Sacred Thunderbolt, the significance of which is so important that you will find it to be part of a dramatic climax in the forthcoming mighty Paramount picture. 1959’s ENTERTAINMENT BLOCKBUSTER! ■BB FAMILY MEDAL AWARD _ -QAAWr MB HI .PITOTMIP I PM PKUEWKr <*■ PICTURE OF THE MONTH LOTS OF LAUGHS! SPIRITED MUSIC! TOPS!" ISMP1Y FMM M™8” H£'S PEArED S° EA" WA™ EMOTIONAL! DIXIELAND 1AZZ IS SIMPLY TERRIFIC PLUS GLOWING REPORTS FROM * . u» . ui suniii !...r*,xv<vl, M , -this is a WONDERFUL PlCTUR pmim CANDIDATE FOR LONG. SUCCESSFUL RUNS!" “A PRODUCTION ANY THEATRE SHOULD BE MNNV Wi *T HIS 8f SI' THAI MEANS THE BEEE 'I ENTERTAINMENT'" « "PROBABLY MING TO BE KAYFS MOST SUCCESSFUL PICTURE IN YEARS!" u *• "HOT TIME FOR THEATRES! THE JOINT WILL IUMP!" "THIS IS A WONDERFUL PICTURE !' ****!U» Tf W-A WftlUW ffUSffl BfflW SS .1 .. ... v. • A spirit of true happiness pervades this trade-paper advertisement carrying the glowing news of the success of "The Five Pennies" into all quarters of the motion picture industry. It seems as though everything about this very fine film has an atmosphere of happiness to it. Inside Fashion Nepal Next Fashion Center? Sheppard By Eugenia Sheppard Women’s Feature Editor It’s already a bit tame just to settle for a winter in the south. On to India, no less. . . . Peggy Bancroft, for one, will soon be wearing saris to Manhattan balls. Her famous dinner menus will be spiked with red hot Indian curries. Pretty, blonde Peggy really found her Shangri-la in India where she and her husband's cousin, Ru‘h Pratt, went to spend a month and ended by staying there. Her Shangrila was specifically Nepal, In the Himalayas, which she describes as “the dream pliice ef the world — everybody' should go.” Peggy pictures Nepal as cleEm. friendly, full of gay local parties and with a wonderful hotel. Its orchestra played cha-cha tunes at bteakfast time — but no 7 a. m. for Peggy. The proprietor, Boris, is due here soon to be her guest. ... In Nepal she took elephant rides wearing blue jeans or silk Pucci pants from "her two suitcases — all the luggage she traveled with. She bought dozens of silk saris, most of them pink, white or blue, heavily encrusted with gold. Paris designers Doses and Castillo are now turning them Into evening clothes — mostly long sheaths, but a few short, full dance ’dresses. Peggy also bought the jewels to go with them — dangling sapphire earrings and a bracelet. (“I declared everything, so I don’t mind telling.”) Among the Indian bibelots — the most fascinating she has ever seen — some Jeweled cloisonne birds for her apartment Get ready for an American invasion. Nepal. Follow-the-leader Is a fun game and Peggy, herself, plans to go back as soon as she can persuade her husband to make the trip, • • Nbvy blue has been as the worthwhile sprl; and avocado green lng avocado at Fund luncheon terday were Gei Coppet and ’ An wreathed with loA V^^^BSfCrtiums Just at one single fL'"^^«w#as a fortune in understated neckme??f\ . . Mrs. Percy Ebbott, who likes blue, was wearing sapphires and Mrs. Charles Stevenson a double strand of emeralds with her fox stole. . . . Mrs. Alfred Wallenstein's draped satin hat just matched her iridescent white nail polish. . . . Countess McCormack wore a big, black rough straw hat with her red and black print. Bright notes on the dais: Artur Rubinstein’s red vest and Mrs. Vivienne Beaumont-AUen’s bright blue suit and little breton hat. • • • The Leather Industries are planning to show at least 500 pairs of shoes at the Moscow Fair this summer. Everybody from Evins and Delman down to budget price will be represented for an over-all picture. • • • Italian designers Simonetta and Fabiani will arrive here Tuesday. Along with Carosa (Princess Carraciola), Signorin: and. the popular Angelo of Brionl, they pre now on the west coast as part of I. Magnln’s Italian Festival. Pierre Balmain is due here this week end on perfume business. • • • Mainbocher, famous for slim evening clothes, really changed his type for the magnificent ballgown he designed for Mrs. Charles Engelhard to wear to the Heart Ball the other night. Bare top, big skirted and made of hydrangea printed taffeta, it was the fashion high point of an evening that brought out lots of seen-before evening clothes. Two pretty women who proved there’s nothing like pale pink chiffon for flattery were Susan Fonda and Jane Powell, much more pictorial in real life than on TV. Chairman Jane Pickens Langley scurried here and there in a short tlress of pale pink taffeta (Oldric Royce’s). • • • At the American Institute Crystal Ball, Chicago Schamberg and brought dowg sen ting was Josephine, du Barry, corsage — you’ve guessed cabbage rose. • • • The wickedest looking woman since Queen Nefertiti is Nairpa, the Egyptian belly dancer who performed last night at Ed and Maria Stones’ party for the John Fisteres. Since Fistere has just resigned as associate publisher of "Architectural Forum” and plans to live in Lebanon from now on, even the. Stones' hors d'oeuvres were Egyptian. This feature story in the New York Herald-Tribune is a index to the widespread interest in Nepal, the fascinating and iridescent background to "The Mountain Is Young." Soo it will be virtually impossible to find a printed publicat ion that is not aglow with news and pictures of Nepal th locale of "The Mountain Is Young."