could one spare
one's pants for
a Mouton?
She'd met the French Rothschilds because
Jacob Rothschild, of the English Roths-
childs, was the son of Barbara Hutchinson
by her first marriage and Maro's mother
knew her; and Jacob had introduced Maro to
his cousin Beatrice, when she had gone to
Paris to study. One day, Wolfgang Reinhardt
came for drinks at the Rothschild house on
the Avenue Marigny. Wolfie was a film pro-
ducer, said Maro. Her mother had had an af-
fair with him when John Huston was shooting
his movie on Freud [with Montgomery Clift,
need I say; Ed.].
When Wolfgang appeared,
Beatrice told Maro that unfortunately she
couldn't stay for lunch, because she was
wearing trousers. Her parents always in-
sisted that women wear skirts at meals.
Wolfgang told Maro: come with me and I'll
give you lunch with Sartre instead.
Matthew Spender
A House in St John's Wood
In Search of my Parents
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015©
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