Word: dahlia
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...head of the stretch, then roaring past the field in a powerful thrust. Last week American-bred Allez France beat the best thoroughbreds Europe had to offer in the 1%-mile Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, winning $296,500 and becoming the only other filly besides Dahlia ever to earn $1 million. Back at the stable, keeping the champ happy takes considerably more than oats. Allez France demands the camaraderie of Merry Lord, a horse who leads the morning workouts, dotes on the champion and lets her bite him and bump him around. Trainer Angel Penna has thoughtfully...
...naturally concerned least the book fall into the wrong hands. The second is that Bertie's old Oxford chum. Harold "Ginger" Winship, is standing for Parliament in the by-election at Market Snodsbury, in deference to the wishes of his bossy finance, Florence Craye, Bertie goes to his Aunt Dahlia's house in Market Snodsbury to help Ginger--though unwillingly, since he too has been engaged to Florence Craye, with traumatic results. At Aunt Dahlia's he meets a collection of old friends and enemies and gets into all kinds of jams, from which Jeeves inevitably extricates him. The club...
There are also loony flights of fancy: the world as understood by Bertram Wooster. In one of Wodehouse's few topical allusions. Bertie and his Aunt Dahlia muse on Jeeves' statement that, "If steps are not taken shortly through the proper channels, half the world will soon be standing on the other half's shoulders...
...inevitable thunderclap comes in the form of a telephone call from his Aunt Dahlia, who invites him down to her estate near Market Snodsbury. Who should be there but Madeline Bassett and her new fiancé, the seventh Earl of Sidcup, not to mention the beautiful but bossy Florence Craye, a millionaire businessman called L.P. Runkle, and a bounder by the name of Bingley. Add to that Bertie, a mobile magnet for disaster, and you have literary lunacy of a high order-P.G. Wodehouse in near-perfect form. In no time at all, the Earl of Sidcup has caught...
Unbridled sex appeal and bridled hobbyhorses make an unlikely scene. Yet there was Israeli Siren Dahlia Lavi, 26, playing the role of the Jewish Mother with all the smothering solicitude of Molly Goldberg. Since Son Rouven was born to her and Producer-Husband John Sullivan 20 months ago, Dahlia has been hewing to her London hearthside during film breaks and doing all those cuddly, maternal things that sloe-eyed vamps are not supposed to do. Devotees of décolletage need not worry, though; Dahlia is currently appearing in one screen steamer, Nobody Runs Forever, and has just completed another...