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Candles and Cake. Neither, it seems, could anyone who got an invitation. Of notable names, there was no end: Umberto, ex-King of Italy; Juscelino Kubitschek, ex-President of Brazil; Stavros Niarchos, ex-husband of Charlotte Ford Niarchos. For titles, there were the Maharanee of Baroda, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Princess Ira von Furstenberg and Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes. Salvador Dali materialized, so to speak. So did Hollywood Director Vincente Minnelli, Sonja Henie, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Audrey Hepburn, Françoise Sagan and Penelope Tree...
Died. Princess Marina, 61, Duchess of Kent, Greek-born aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; of a brain tumor; in London. Gifted with beauty and intelligence (she spoke eight languages), the princess was haunted by tragedy. Her husband, Prince George, son of Britain's King George V, was killed in 1942 while on a wartime mission to Iceland. In spite of it all, she continued in the public eye, sponsored numerous charities, and served as a globetrotting goodwill ambassador for the Queen...
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...