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...months-a-year custodianship of nine-year-old son Lance, was surprised when ex-Husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow dropped his complete-custody suit (TIME, June 5), shocked when she heard that the Count had whisked the boy off to Canada. "Like any mother," said the five-&-dime Countess, "I am upset and distressed." The Count's attorney accused her of not bringing up Lance like "a gentleman and a scholar," explained the whisking: "The Count heard that Countess Barbara had threatened . . . to take the boy to Spain...
...Countess Gisèle de Chambrun, Manhattan socialite wife of a great-great-great-grandson of Lafayette, who "bumped" her car into a schoolboy last December, fracturing his legs, arms and skull, went to court to tell (in French) her version of the accident, got off with two $5 fines for "driving with a defective horn" and "failure to give right...
...musical comedy, the frail, dreamy character of the real Edvard Grieg was more musical than comic. But Song of Norway's librettists depict the gentle, gnomish composer as a heroic genius whose fidelity to Norwegian folksong and his Norwegian wife is threatened by the wiles of an Italian countess named Louisa Giovanni. She represents the cosmopolitan musical culture of sophisticated Europe. Grieg, though tempted, sticks to Norway, and composes his greatest work, the Piano Concerto in A Minor. So ingratiating are the familiar, lyrical Grieg melodies in which this flimsy plot is dressed that last week three Hollywood studios...
Exit Finns. Handsome, clever and soon divorced, Minister Procopé became the ideal extra man at dinner almost as soon as he arrived in 1939. When he finally eloped with the niece of a British countess (he was 50, she 29), hearts broke all over Washington, from Chevy Chase to Georgetown. Minister Procopé's popularity was more than personal. He represented the one country that continued to pay back its World War I debt to the U.S. (he paid an installment just 24 hours before he was expelled). Finland, too, was then the brave little nation which...
Against Oblivion is not exactly a fictionized biography, since letters and diaries carefully document it, but it includes a few invented scenes and speeches. The work of Sheila, Countess of Birkenhead (daughter-in-law of Severn's grandson) it is a labor of love in more senses than one. The affection for Keats with which it is suffused, its portrait of the gentle, sturdy, unworldly, innocent and perceptive Severn, its wonderful picture of Severn's happy family life make it a biography as tender and moving as any in recent literature...