Milking the Moon (34 page)

Eugene at a party given by Gurney Campbell, with false braids he stole from the poet Julia Randall. He proceeds to play the monkey, his favorite of all animals, precariously balancing himself on a window ledge.
(photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Catherine Morison and Eugene Walter in London, 1954, when Catherine married Julian Cooper. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

From left: Hans de Vaal, Mary Lee Settle, Alfred Chester, and Eugene Walter, at a dinner party in Eugene’s Paris apartment.
(photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Pati Hill, a former model and an early contributor to the Paris Review, in her Paris apartment. (photograph by Eugene Walter, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Theodora Roosevelt Keogh, a member of the expatriate café society in Paris of the 1950s. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

From left: Ollie Harrington and Richard Wright, American writer and expatriate at a café in Paris. (© D. Berretty)

From left: Bee Dabney, Eugene Walter, Yvonne Pène duBois, and George Plimpton, at a birthday party for Plimpton given by Sally Higginson in her room at the Hôtel Vendôme, Paris. (© Van Noppen)

Sally Higginson at the party she threw for George Plimpton’s birthday. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Princess Marguerite Caetani receiving the Légion d’honneur during the tenth anniversary celebration of Botteghe Obscure. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Eugene Walter and Princess Caetani in Ninfa. (© Photo Bosio Press, Rome)

Virginia Campbell (Ginny Becker), who lived in an apartment in the Palazzo Caetani and performed marionette productions with Eugene, Rome, 1960s. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

A scene from “The Cat Cabaret,” a marionette production by Eugene and Ginny Becker, Rome. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)