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...April Azalea Festival in Norfolk, Va., headquarters of NATO's naval command for the Atlantic, has had 17 queens over the years to smile prettily in tribute to the Alliance. In December, Sir Winston Churchill's beauteous granddaughter, Arabella Churchill, 21, said that she would be delighted to be Azalea Queen No. 18. But last week the festival made public a letter from Arabella saying she had been reading up on NATO and had decided against azaleas. "My Grandfather used the phrase 'The Iron Curtain,' " she wrote. "It seems to be that what is facing...
LICHTBLAU, a resident of New York City, also presents the beauteous scenes of her native Austria, paintings which, with the exception of the Wagnerian nightmare "The Black Lake," are calm and contemplative. Once again, the family groups appear, though more idyllic in their rural surroundings. "Pastoral Dream" presents her thesis, the juxtaposition of urban terror and rural serenity. The contrasts in her paintings grate and, though powerful, often appear stark and over-simplified...
...Sure enough, he finds a strange old man there named Monk Hesseltine who quivers at the mention of Bechuanaland and turns white at the sight of a truffle. When Hesseltine is murdered by a poisoned arrow, Perelman becomes involved in his mysterious past at the behest of Hesseltine's beauteous neice, Cosima. Needless to say, Perelman solves the mystery, which involves vengeful Bushmen and blackmail of the French truffle industry, and gets the beautiful Cosima...
...vaudeville was once king, burlesque was the nation's raffish, rococo old queen. Sixty years ago this week, Baltimore's New Monumental Theater featured "Divorceland: A fantasy of song and jest, with sumptuous scenic environment and an ensemble of beauteous femininity, prodigally clad in costly raiment." Throughout the '20s and '30s, pratfalls and epidermis at Minsky's warmed the Broadway night. From Boston's elegant Old Howard Theater to the vulgar palaces of Midwestern river towns, innocently dirty old men of all ages whistled and stamped at the sultry writhings of Gypsy Rose...
Dressed in tri-corner hat, colonial waistcoat, knee knickers, and silk stockings, Curtis expounded on the horrors of the British armed occupation : "our beauteous virgins exposed to all the insolence of unbridled passion. and our virtuous wives falling a sacrifice to worse than brutal violence...