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A Return To Riches.(Evening in Paris perfume)
A Return To Riches
Paris in a Bottle
It came in a little blue bottle with a silver stopper, with the name in script across the label: Evening in Paris. A very sweet perfume, overpowering and pungent, too much so for a grown woman to use, but when I was 12, I thought it was about right for a girl to wear. I had a paper route then, and in the back alley behind the newspaper building we read certain passages aloud over and over about a girl named Betty in Peyton Place while we waited for our papers. The newspaper presses were loud and rackety, and Betty did things with boys we'd not known about before, and while we read, one of the boys showed us a bottle of Evening in Paris that he'd found or stolen, and we took turns smelling it. Then in the winter I asked a girl named Lynn to go to a dance at Roosevelt gymnasium with me. She was a popular girl with soft, curly hair, and she was lively and talkative and had her own clever way with words. In the days before the dance my sister taught me how to do a ...
- Peyton Place has nothing on Israel
- Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post Greer Fay Cashman October 11, 1996 700+ words
...one wonders what other titillating tidbits there could be. Peyton Place has absolutely nothing on Israel. HE WAS all set to go to...veterans. The younger Holzberg recently hosted a memorial evening for his father at the Tel Aviv Hilton to which he invited...
- Emily Toth Inside Peyton Place: the Life of Grace Metalious.
- Magazine article from: International Fiction Review Knoenagel, Axel January 1, 2002 700+ words
...Mississippi, 2000. Pp. 409. $18.00 Peyton Place, published in 1956, was the most commercially...to produce another work that matched Peyton Place in quality and success. She died in 1964. Peyton Place was very much a product of the 1950s...
- Return to 'Peyton Place' - Reissue of best-selling book allows a shockless...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Schorow, Stephanie April 6, 1999 700+ words
...stage on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "Peyton Place" hit bookstores. A gritty and deliciously...small-town New Hampshire life, "Peyton Place" captivated the public even as it was...April 15, '90s readers can go back to Peyton Place via a new paperback edition, published...
- Secrets and lies of a small town 'Peyton Place,' a classic '60s television...
- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune ARI KARPEL The New York Times July 18, 2009 700+ words
...2009 Secrets and lies of a small town 'Peyton Place,' a classic '60s television series...intertwined, debauched citizens, "Peyton Place" had a long run. That is, until...releases of the 1960s television show "Peyton Place," which was based on the trashy 1956...
- Sex, Lies And Scandal At 'Peyton Place'
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered MELISSA BLOCK August 10, 2009 700+ words
...10-2009 Sex, Lies And Scandal At 'Peyton Place' Host: MELISSA BLOCK Time 21:00...feeling at age 11 when I first picked up "Peyton Place," a trashy romp of sex, murder and...I'm not supposed to be reading. "Peyton Place" was released in 1956 to quite a stir...
- `ABBOTTS' REINVENTS `PEYTON PLACE'.(What's Happening)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Arnold, William April 4, 1997 700+ words
...box office hit of the decade with ``Peyton Place,'' a glossy, sexy soap opera about...of Friends''). The story of ``Peyton Place,'' which was adapted from a novel...daughters of the wealthy Abbott family. ``Peyton Place'' was an ensemble vehicle for its...
- `Peyton Place' to Frog Hollow: Farrow reflects on a full life.(ENTERTAINMENT)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Tillotson, Kristin May 31, 1998 700+ words
...the 1960s, she was the teenage star of "Peyton Place," the first soap opera to become a hit...would have stayed in school and not done `Peyton Place.' If I hadn't done `Peyton Place,' I wouldn't have met Frank Sinatra...
- ANOTHER SAGA PEYTON PLACE CREATOR SPURS TALK ONCE AGAIN
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Bob Hohler, Globe Staff August 30, 1987 700+ words
...Grace Metalious was gone. The author of Peyton Place, a steamy tale of adultery, incest...townspeople in the seven stormy years between Peyton Place's controversial debut and her death...that long after the backlash from Peyton Place -- Metalious' social exile and her...
