Word: buckinghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conscience complain about that: there's entirely too much noise in almost every Shakespeare production--but it seems to be of little avail. With the exception of a few actors, like Mr. Abbott himself (who is the languid and ailing King Edward), or Andreas Teuber (a vital Buckingham, and a perfect Charlie to Pickett's Ev), or Phil Kerr (Harry Richmond), whose skills approach those of Mr. Pickett, none of Richard's enemies is much worth listening...
...flatly hostile final communiqué. Recruiting Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to help with the lobbying, Macmillan exerted all his considerable charm at small meetings, between sessions, at the evening receptions, even at Queen Elizabeth's banquet for the Commonwealth leaders in Buckingham Palace...
Last year Britain's Debrett set had some etiquette pointers for the Radziwills. After accompanying the President of the U.S. and his wife to a dinner at Buckingham Palace, they were listed on the official court calendar as Prince and Princess. Proper Britons boggled over the fact that Stash is now a British subject, thus could correctly use his title only if he had a special license from the Queen, which might be as hard to get as some annulments. The accepted explanation for the faux pas was that palace protocol officers consciously elevated the Radziwills on that occasion...
...warm "cher ami." Then the two old warriors, both 71, went inside to lunch with 14 guests, including U.S. Ambassador James Gavin. "It was a quiet, small, very friendly, almost a family affair," reported Mrs. Gavin. Flying on across the channel for more of the same, Ike lunched at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth, paid a 15-minute visit to another wartime companion, recuperating Sir Winston Churchill, 87, who broke out the brandy (but, Ike noted, failed to fire up one of his famous cigars). Said Ike: "He looks like the same old Winston, alert and interested in things...
...Cary tickles it into life." But good light comedy is still little more than exquisite froth, and Cary Grant has never won an Academy Award. "I don't quite understand all the fuss over this so-called realism," he complains. "Is a garbage can any more realistic than Buckingham Palace...