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Craps & Hand Grenades. But as soon as Onassis called on his old friend, Prince Rainier, the atmosphere became more friendly. The Casino, once the gathering place of rich royalty and the royally rich, had fallen on bad times. Gone were the days when Alexandra, Czarina of all the Russias, could bring the entire corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled, when a Casino patron could toss a hand grenade into the roulette wheel after losing his wad and scarcely raise a commotion. Currency restrictions had cut the once-rich British trade to a trickle; the recently installed...
...troupe also boasted several standard tiptoeing ballets, as well as famed Ballerina Alexandra Danilova as guest star. But Streetcar, composed by Modern Dancer Valerie Bettis, was clearly the breadwinner. The management sagely scheduled it for every performance except the first children's matinee. Midway in their one-week stand, Slavenska, Franklin & Co. decided to extend their run into January, then take Streetcar back on the road...
...Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen was a thin, gawky cockney child born to a Danish father and an Irish mother within sound of London's Bow Bells. The most exciting times of her childhood were the nighttime flights from creditors with the family's scanty possessions piled on to a friendly grocer's cart...
Died. Madame Alexandra ("Red Rose of the Revolution") Kollontay, 80, Bolshevik amazon and world's first accredited female envoy; in the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union's first Minister of Welfare, she later served as minister to Norway (1924-26) and Mexico (1926-27) and ambassador to Sweden...
...Duke of Gloucester, and his sons William and Richard; then, to the children of George, Duke of Kent, who died in World War II when his R.A.F. flying boat crashed in Scotland. They are: Edward, now Duke of Kent, Michael (whose godfather was Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Alexandra. Last of all in direct succession is George VI's only sister, the Princess Royal, and her family: George, seventh Earl of Harewood (rhymes with Gar Wood), sometime opera critic for the left-wing New Statesman and married to a Viennese pianist, their year-old son, and his younger brother...