European Social Scene
In Florence Pierone became friends with Arthur Penn, who later became the famous film producer. Their group of stylish ex-pats obtained recordings of Broadway musicals, which they enacted during dinner parties at a Florentine villa.
In Paris she remained close to Tom Keogh, who was drawing illustrations for books and magazines, including the cover of the first Paris edition of Vogue (magazine). She was also close to Tom’s wife, novelist Theodora Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Teddy. She knew society arts patron Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noaille, as well as Julian Stein (Gertrude Stein’s nephew), French illustrator William Pene duBois, and American humorist Art Buchwald. Pierone illustrated Buchwald’s book Paris After Dark.
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