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...major works of art from the Chatsworth collection, including works by Rembrandt, Memling. Holbein and Van Dyck. The paintings will go to British museums. Hardwick Hall will be administered by the National Trust, and be open to the public four days a week, though the 86-year-old Dowager Duchess of Devonshire may live there for the rest of her days. The deal was by far the largest of its kind ever made. The 37-year-old duke, who had previously paid in more than $2,800,000, now thinks he can meet the rest of the tax without drastic...
...laid the scene of a Stavros Niarchos wingding-"The Creole, at anchor in the port of Villefranche, lay low in the water like a black panther of the sea"-pounded out the hard news with dispatch-"It was too funny for words. Mrs. Guinness took off her shoes. The Duchess did her conception of the calypso. Harold Vanderbilt begged me to dance with him. I refused only because, though I love Harold, I cannot dance"-but lost, control in her bread-and-butter blurb: "When I said good night to Stavros, I felt much of my old affection rush into...
Fatuous End. Careful never to mention their German connections, foreign operatives in Portugal did their best to frighten Windsor with cooked-up tales of Churchillian vengeance directed against him through Britain's intelligence service. An ominous warning was slipped into a bouquet of flowers presented to the Duchess. "A firing of shots . . . through the bedroom window," wrote the German minister to Ribbentrop, "scheduled for the night of July 30, was omitted, since the psychological effect on the Duchess would only have been to increase her desire to depart, [but] through steady undermining of their sense of security, the Duke...
Special credit is due Arthur Waldstein as the Duke of Plaza-Toro and to his whole entourage, including John Bernard as his attendant, Alison Keith as the pompous Duchess, and Marjory Harper as the daughter, later Queen of Barataria. Waldstein is nothing short of hilarious as the somewhat down-at-the-heels Duke. Alison Keith, who is well-known to Cambridge audiences, is an excellent actress who possesses a fine comic opera voice. John Bernard has an extremely able voice and he appeared quite natural in his role as drummer-boy, later King of Barataria. As his beloved, Marjory Harper...
Under the warm sun of a republic that suffers kings no more, Prince Henri of France, 24, the eldest son of the Count of Paris, pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and the Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg, 22, were married before 150 other crowned and uncrowned heads of Europe's dwindling but still ornamental nobility. As the elegant 50-car procession wound through the streets of Dreux in one of the most dazzling displays of royal panoply since World War II, thousands of monarchists shouted "Vive le Roi!" Among those present: King Paul and Queen Frederika...