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...come from the sarcophagus of the 3rd Century Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and to have once contained his ashes. Sir William Hamilton, otherwise known to history as the husband of Horatio Nelson's mistress, Emma, had brought it to England in 1770. Josiah Wedgwood had copied it, the Duchess of Portland had bought it (whence its present name), and her son had handed it over to the museum. That day in 1845, it lay in 300 little pieces, deliberately smashed by a drunk...
Beating, as prescribed by Carroll's Duchess in Alice in Wonderland, was not recommended as a cure. Allergic children, think Drs. Miller and Baruch, are like cornered animals, and thus suffer enough. In common with other children, they often feel rejected by their mothers and become hostile to their parents. Hostility, according to Miller and Baruch, "is an almost universal phenomenon in our culture." But the allergic children are afraid to bring their hostility out into the open ; they bottle it up until it breaks out as illness. They feel guilty about their hostility and are really punishing themselves...
Also present: Richard Greene and Jeanne Grain as Lord and Lady Windermere, and Martita (Great Expectations) Hunt as the malicious Duchess of Berwick. Conspicuously absent in this Otto Preminger-directed revival: the sparkling style, pace and timing that made Wilde's plays amusing even at their emptiest...
Everything from a modern interpretive "reaction to examinations" to dance movements to poetry are in the offing. The Dance Group will also present studies in technique of several pieces from the Alice in Wonderland duchess-lobster quadrille and a Negro spiritual number...
...Manhattan, the Artists' League of America carefully sized up the world's beauties, brashly issued a list of "The Most Perfect Features." The league's beauties, in order of attributes: forehead -the Duchess of Windsor ("slopes exactly right"); ears-Margaret Truman ("an exact replica of those found in Greek sculpture"); eyes-Princess Margaret ("softness is the test"); nose-Madame Chiang Kai-shek ("the less obtrusive the more perfect"); cheekbones-Jane Russell; lips-Rita Hayworth ("the test lies in the reaction of the opposite sex"); thighs -Esther Williams ("the anomalous combination of firmness and softness"); legs -Linda Darnell...