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This year's Hasty Pudding show is a mass of incongruities: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, thinly disguised, hob-nob with a Marxist chambermaid; an Irish plumber appears in the midst of the expatriate rich on the isle of Elba; a sexy French singer takes a copy of Dr. Zhivago into the shower with her. Yet somehow all these strained touches combine to make an evening...
Terry Blanchard, as Elba's version of Elsa Maxwell, John Spooner, as Walrus, Duchess of Wopping, the Baltimore girl who made her debut in the YWCA and grew up to "rock an empire," and Amyn Khan, an Yma Sumac, whose attraction for men--all men--is fatal, are marvelous. All of them can sing, all of them can act, and all of them have excellent parts. The scene in which they get together to protest that each is really a "Lady at Heart," is a high point of the show...
...Marcel (Roddy McDowall) to look after his mistress Lulu ("Take her to the zoo"). But before Lulu (Tammy Grimes) can say "zoo, la la," she wakes up in bed with her chaperon. She promptly dives under it to make room for Marcel's own mistress, a mock-seductive duchess (Polly Rowles) with the voice and manner of Poe's Raven. From across the frozen tundra comes the Prince of Salestria, who wants to thaw out with Lulu in the same busy bed. Since Lulu is a cocotte, pleasure is business, but business is also her pleasure...
Director Ritchard's situation and sight gags in Lulu are best. In one lively scene, Lulu routs the duchess by prancing into Marcel's bedroom flailing a pair of fireworks sparklers; in another, an impassioned lover avidly kisses Lulu's clothed arm to the elbow, then fastidiously spits out the green fuzz...
...Germain. The 18th century mansion was beautifully furnished, its walls hung with Renoirs, Utrillos, Constables and Gauguins; its guests dined off silver plates dipped in gold. Some of the guests: Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, General Alfred Gruenther, Papal Legate Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (now Pope John XXIII), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, and practically every noted French politician, artist or writer...