Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most people in the village of Unterlengenhart, West Germany, where she has been living, know her as Anna Anderson. But for 31 years she has been trying to prove she is the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Russia's murdered Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra. On a visit to the U.S. last week, she found an important backer: Maria Rasputin, 69, daughter of the "mad monk" who held dark dominance over the Czarina. Soon after the two women met in Charlottesville, Va., they began reminiscing. Twice Anna called Maria by her pet name, "Mara." No matter what...
...book its real fascination is its palpable authenticity. Behrman has collected people and experiences like a connoisseur. He has known the rich, the beautiful and the talented, and he appears to have put them into his novel as vividly and intimately as in a diary. Freud, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Arnold Schoenberg and Irving Thalberg make cameo appearances. Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler Werfel, Max Reinhardt, and several society beauties of the '30s are only slightly disguised. The author mocks, but he also burnishes his characters with an élan found all too rarely in current fiction...
...Richard Mathews' Mowbray sputters and lacks resonance, and Rex Robbins' Northumberland is colorless throughout. Thomas Ruisinger makes an admirably intense Bishop of Carlisle, but he ought to know that the meter requires that "Hereford" be disyllabic, not trisyllabic. Of the women--who are peripheral in this play--Zoe Kamitses' Duchess of Gloucester remains in the memory for her one powerful scene in the first act. John Duffy's fanfares and Jennifer Tipton's lighting serve the play capably...
...years, his salon on Avenue George-V was the very citadel of haute-couture, and Cristobal Balenciaga, 73, was its lofty priest. The son of a Basque fisherman, Balenciaga created a legend rich in grace and splendor; elegant women-the Duchess of Windsor, Barbara Hutton, Queen Fabiola-cloaked themselves in the simple yet sumptuous designs that were his trademark. Thus the entire fashion world lost some of its sheen last week at the news that the House of Balenciaga is closing. Some said he is simply bored; others claimed that his disdain for "commercialism" and contemporary styles had caused business...
Nothing Exaggerated. De La Renta is strictly a wholesale designer (exceptions: his wedding dresses for Anne Ford Uzielli and Minnie Gushing Beard). Among his customers are Babe Paley, the Duchess of Windsor and all the Kennedys except Jackie, whose loyalty is still to Rome's Valentino. Says De La Renta of his dress of the year: "It's very feminine. There is nothing exaggerated about it, and many different types of women can wear...