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...Manhattan public relations firm proudly announced that it had hired some new help: exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia, 27, and his wife Queen Alexandra, 30, who will be "available for consultant services and public appearances for a limited number of prestige clients." One of the King's first tasks: to promote a snappy foreign sports car. The Queen will try her hand at designing some dresses...
...them: Dancer-Actress Tamara Geva, who became his first wife; Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, who became his second. Subsequent wives: Berlin-born Dancer Vera Zorina, from whom he was divorced in 1946, Oklahoma-born Ballerina Maria Tallchief, part Osage Indian, from whom he separated last month...
Under BBC's wing, television got off to a world head start in 1930. But British TV screens went blank during the war and the U.S. has since taken an overwhelming quantitative lead. From its studios in London's Alexandra Palace and Lime Grove, BBC today telecasts over a single channel to Britain's 450.000 TV sets. Each morning there is an hour-long demonstration film so that TV dealers will have something to show prospective buyers. In the afternoon, there is either a good British or French movie or a women's program containing news...
...hazards were well known to the team of Canadian doctors who, in Edmonton's Royal Alexandra Hospital, performed this week what is believed to have been the most difficult operation of the kind in medical history...
...abstract grace of "Swan Lake" requires faultless dancing to be truly successful. Its movements are classically simple, and the chaste costumes and Tschaikowsky's subdued music offer little distraction. Alexandra Danilova, as the swan queen, unfortunately, lacks some of the effortless, completely-controlled action that is demanded of her. Mlle. Danilova's dancer, Frederic Franklin, is also occasionally ungainly. The corps de ballet proves to be technically capable, although not distinguished...