Item: On 23 September 1929, after dancing professionally that summer in brief engagements in the South of France, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife of the famous young author F. Scott Fitzgerald, received a formal invitation to join the San Carlo Opera Ballet Company in Naples, Italy. As her début with the San Carlo, she was to dance a solo role in Aïda, with other solo performances as the season progressed. She turned down the offer. A few days later, while Scott was driving along the Corniche—that treacherous stretch of road that claimed the life of Grace Kelly—Zelda grabbed the steering wheel and attempted to force the car off the cliff. The car, she insisted, was acting of its own volition. Item: A few months later, in March 1930, Zelda completed a short story entitled'A Millionaire's Girl." Her best work to date after writing fiction and essays for ten years,'A Millionaire's Girl" was accepted for publication in the top magazine of the day, The Saturday Evening Post, and brought the still-phenomenal price of $4,000. However, when the story finally appeared in the Post two months later in May 1930, Zelda was able to derive little satisfaction from its publication. For by then she was far from the United States, in Switzerland's Valmont asylum, having suffered the first of her three nervous breakdowns.