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...concerns a young prince, disconsolate over the death of a vivid, orchid-eating ballerina. He lives on a vast French estate that has reproduced the world of inns and nightclubs and ice-cream wagons that were part of his romance. Into this world the prince's wacky, loving duchess aunt brings a young milliner who greatly resembles the ballerina. The aunt hopes that her nephew will fall in love once more. At first he resents and snubs the girl, while she surmises that he has never really loved the dancer. But soon all goes spinningly...
...rewarding-in fact, is great fun-when it is a stylish theater piece, full of little acting doodads and knickknacks, of interpolated flourishes and roulades: a trio practicing orchid-eating, a wild snatch of Swan Lake, a bit of supper ritual, a quite mad hunting scene. As the flighty duchess, Helen Hayes -if not wholly French-is very often wholly delightful, alternating an actress' skill with a vaudevillian's liveliness. Richard Burton plays a prince who is more bored than bereaved with a fine sullen dash; and his verbal aria on how sad it is to be rich...
...Opening in a new play is just like catnip to a kitten!" says Actress Helen Hayes, in her first week as the rollicking, white-haired, fuzzy-headed Duchess in Time Remembered. Shy, tiny (5 ft.) Actress Hayes, regarded by many as the First Lady of the American theater, is delighted to be back on Broadway in her first original role since Mrs. McThing in 1952,. "I couldn't bear to think of anyone else playing that delicious Duchess," she explains. "I guess I was just waiting for the right play to come along...
...charm. She never seems to realize that the romanticism of early Socialism and that of the Old South were akin. However different the windmills they were tilting at, both Mary and Upton were American romantics. Besides, most social reformers are dedicated snobs (Upton himself, claiming kinship with the Duchess of Windsor, wrote a series of articles about her folks...
Died. Herman Livingston Rogers, 66, debonair U.S. engineer, photographer and Social Registerite, longtime friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (he gave the bride away at their 1937 wedding); after a year's illness; at his villa in Cannes, France...