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...undergraduates have been very, very generous in making our family feel at home," adds Leverett Senior Tutor Thomas A. Dingman '67, father of Kathryn and fifteen-month-old Alexandra. "It's like having a big, big family around." says Nancy Dingman...
...major drawback of the situation, for Jessica and three-year-old Alexandra, is that the Masters Dowling are very involved in House activities. Asked what advice she would give a friend entering a similar situation. Jessica replies. "I'd say, I think you're going to have fun, but you've got to be ready for your parents to be really busy...
...Waddle-Browne," an anagram for the show's producer, Andrew Lloyd Webber). It is a sparkling, spanking-new parody of the Brazil novels that manages to be at once knowing and wide-eyed. The entire cast is darling-one wants to adopt the lot of them-led by Alexandra Mathie as Daisy, the poor but brilliant girl who ingratiates herself with classmates and audience alike...
Fabergé, whose Huguenot family fled France in 1685, eventually presided over branches in Moscow, Odessa, Kiev and London. He was principally supported by the Romanovs, notably the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna and her son Tsar Nicholas II. The Danish-born Empress introduced the jeweler to her sister Alexandra and Alexandra's husband King Edward VII of England, both of whom became steadfast patrons of Fabergé. Most of the Fabergéana at A la Vieille Russie were made for the Russian royal family. Among them are nine imperial Easter eggs, the works with which Faberg...
...nine include the richly ornamented Peter the Great Egg (1903) and the Mosaic Egg (1914) which is perhaps the most elegant of all. It is in the Cooper-Hewitt show and may be worth $1 million. Presented to his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna by Nicholas II in 1914, the 3⅝-in.-high egg is made of intertwining gold belts and platinum mesh set with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, topaz, quartz and garnets. The surprise inside is an oval plaque of gold, pearl and enamel on which are painted the profiles of the five royal children, all of whom were...