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...late child of the 18th century about which he has fashioned expert and fascinating books, e.g., Kings and Desperate Men, Marlborough's Duchess, Louis Kronenberger has occupied a paradoxical role in the modern theater-an urbane, classical temperament confronting a drama of increasingly primitive sensationalism. As a man of reason, he has dueled with the sentimental drama that wears its heart on its sleeve and with the tricked-up theatrical spectacle. Almost alone among contemporary critics, he has upheld comedy's right to be taken seriously, chiefly because "comedy is a kind of thermostat that regulates and corrects...
Died. The Duchess of Marlborough (née the Hon. Mary Cadogan), 61, daughter of an ancient Welsh house, wife of the tenth Duke of Marlborough, frequent hostess to Britain's royal family as mistress of stately Blenheim Palace, birthplace of her cousin by marriage, Sir Winston Churchill; after a long illness of an undisclosed nature; in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England...
Other crowned heads may lie uneasy, but not Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte. Though the smallest country in the U.N. with an area of 999 sq. mi., Luxembourg is the world's tenth largest steel producer. Its 322,000 citizens are the most prosperous in Europe; unemployment rarely exceeds one dozen. Its biggest postwar crisis came when the victorious Allies granted Luxembourg 2 sq. mi. of German territory. Defending its territorial integrity, Luxembourg refused to take the land. Charlotte has ruled her serene, bucolic land for 42 years, making her the world's most durable head...
Last week the Grand Duchess, now 65, took steps to ensure that the goodly inheritance of Luxembourg would go to her first son and rightful heir, Prince Jean Benoit Guillaume Marie Robert Louis Antoine Adolphe Marc d'Aviano de Nassau-Weiburg. Under an obscure 110-year-old article in the Luxembourg constitution, she swore in Prince Jean, 40, as Lieutenant of the Grand Duke. It bestows on him all the powers of the Grand Duchess as head of state, leaving Charlotte only the title-and presumably peace of mind that when she abdicates or dies, the title of Grand...
...characters converge in the back corridors or the main dining hall of Serenity House, they strike continuous comic sparks. At times the characters-and the book-show the strain of trying to make every moment a madcap one. But most of the time Author Kronenberger-biographer (Marlborough's Duchess), social commentator (Company Manners), novelist (Grand Right and Left), and TIME theater critic for 23 years-keeps the repartee fresh and furiously flying. Moreover, he makes the reader accept his lunatic world on its own farcical terms-no mean achievement in an age in which written wit is closer...