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...funniest spectacles to be seen hereabouts in a long time is taking place on the stage of the Wilbur these nights. Count Ory and a dozen knights, all disguised as nuns, gain entrance to a palace in which a countess and her female friends have retreated with Lysistratan resolves while their husbands are off on the Crusades. The men's lecherous aims are temporarily side-tracked when one of them discovers a well-stocked wine cellar; a drunken orgy ensues until the ladies suddenly come on the scene...
...Turkish bellydancer was grinding away at Anita's challenge: "Let's see you do better." She did. With fundamental gesture-and no clothing save a pair of black lace panties-Haisch Nanah, 24, turned U.S. Socialite Peter Howard's birthday party for an Italian countess into haischish. Luckily, the poliziotti showed up before the 200 guests could succumb to Roman fever. Said the Vatican's L'Osservatort-Romano next day: "The lice of society...
...Died. Countess Guy du Boisrouvray, 55; in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Formerly Luz Mila Patiñio, the countess was the daughter of the late Simón Patiño, a Bolivian cholo (part Indian) who turned an abandoned tin mine into a fortune once estimated at $1 billion and a higher annual income than the Bolivian government, dealt out his children in marriage to Europe's thoroughbreds...
...bear the illustrious Beatty name. Frank Sinatra, who recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while the press eagerly predicted that he was about to marry pretty, brunette Countess Beatty, 36, the former Adelle Dillingham O'Connor of Oklahoma City...
...first recording of Le Comte demonstrates, but linked together they constitute not three operas but a splintered fragment of one. The work has some rich ensemble climaxes and some rippling solo parts, but after one and a half acts of inspired buffoonery about a predatory count and a lovesick countess, the opera degenerates into a downhill scramble toward a baldly telescoped ending. The sporadically brilliant music gets an adequate performance from the Glyndebourne crew...