Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While being occasionally fleeced himself, it would appear the British bettor likes nothing more than to learn that gambling problems also occur in the best of families. Tabloid readers lapped up a recent court case involving the Duchess of Bedford's daughter-in-law, a sultry Iranian high roller named Kitty Milinaire, who in an epic three-year binge frittered away a $6 million fortune at chemin de fer, blackjack and practically anything else at which she could try her diamond-decorated hand. Charged with stealing jewels taken out on approval from Cartier, Kitty, 39, was acquitted...
Eventually Curtiss published her Letters of Marcel Proust, and it brought a poignant meeting with the Countess Greffulhe, one of the models for the Duchess de Guermantes. All that remained of her remarkable beauty was exquisite bones and unique-colored eyes, which her cousin, the famous Count de Montesquiou, had compared to "black fireflies." Her memory was still young, however, and Proust was as vivid in mind as the day he walked into her salon. "I didn't like him," she recalled. "His sticky flattery was not to my taste. There was something I found unattractive about...
MARRIED, Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart Silva y Falcó, 52, better known as the Duchess of Alba, one of the world's wealthiest and most titled women (47 titles in all), who once trained as a bullfighter; and Jesús Aguirré y Ortiz de Zarate, 44. the government's director of music, a former Roman Catholic priest known as an elegant dresser and a respected European intellectual; she for the second time, he for the first; in a quiet ceremony at the duchess's palace in Madrid...
After his fight with Moore, for instance, the author heard that the Duchess d'Uzes was delivered to the door of Stillman's Gym in a Rolls-Royce. "She paused at the turnstile, a lovely, graceful girl who always wore long light-blue chiffon to set off her golden hair. She peered into the gloom. 'Where's everybody?' she called . . . Lou Stillman approached. I don't know if he produced one of his in finitesimal spittles. Let us say he cleared his throat. 'Everybody is not here,' he said." Such stories have...
...grandee and his wife, known as the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro, initially appear two dimensional but that's because they float across stage on a gondola bearing a resemblance of sorts to Washington Crossing the Delaware. But nothing is flat about David S. Brown's and Diane Nabatoff's performances. Nabatoff manages to look both pinched and bombastic simultaneously. Uppercrustedly on the bourgeois make, Brown has the perfect Hogarthian face for the role: his oblivious facial reactions to his own spectacular antics make him all the funnier. With Brown as the Duke of Plaza-Toro...