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...skit about the White House was hammed. Another, about the home life of the Lunts, appeared to be about acrobats. A piece about the rich unionizing turned shrill. Throughout there were very knowing references to Bergdorf Goodman, Countess di Frasso, the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan's champagne country. Best touch: switchboard wires curling and writhing like snakes. Best performer: Comedienne Imogene Coca...
...Raucheisen, married him. He left because, he said, she always had her mother and her sister Florence with her. Marion travels without the family now. She bought them a house in Kansas City last summer, left them there. She returned to New York, bought herself a La Salle limousine, Bergdorf-Goodman clothes, bobbed her hair, took to roller-skating in Central Park. She used to be plump, phlegmatic, frownish about makeup, proud of being oldfashioned. At 27 she is 15 pounds thinner than at 19. Her looks, too, have improved...
Birthdays. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 75; William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 72; Edwin Goodman (Bergdorf Goodman), 55; Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York...
EDUCATION OF A PRINCESS-Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia-Viking ($3.50). Few princesses have had such an "education" as Marie, onetime Grand Duchess of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas II, now fashion consultant of Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman. Her bitter schooling has not embittered her. "Princes of reigning families are a race apart-a race that has been for centuries shut off in palaces, protected, restricted, compelled to live among its own dreams and illusions. Meantime the world and its needs pass us by. That is why we are destined to be destroyed or forgotten." Orphaned...
...When rumors that Marie intended to apply for U. S. citizenship lately reached Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Russian throne, he threatened to revoke her title and rights. The rumor is neither confirmed nor denied. Marie will tour the U. S., lecture, but will keep her job with Bergdorf-Goodman. She started to write her book in English, got excited, changed to French, got more excited, went on in Russian. Says she, "I wrote it with my heart...