Joan Crawford in Lebanon

All last month there was much talk of the long visit paid to Lebanon by the film star Joan Crawford, in the company of her husband, Mr. Steele, chairman of the board of the American "Pepsi-Cola" company—and the couple were the object of attention in official and popular circles alike.

Several cocktail parties were given in honor of Joan Crawford and her husband, and they were invited to President Chamoun's table at Beiteddine, and to the American ambassador's... On this occasion, too, the director of the "Pepsi-Cola" company in Lebanon, Mr. Tewfik Assaf, and Mrs. Abida, his relative, gave at her residence in Hazmieh a grand cocktail party that brought together hundreds of guests, official and private, while the camera lenses raced after Joan wherever she turned, snapping her picture in every pose.