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...Ambassador Espil, 56, is sometimes called the "Mona Lisa of the Pam pas" for his thought-concealing smile. He first came to the U.S. in 1919 as first secretary to the Embassy, London-tailored, expert at the tango, an escort of Wallis Spencer years before she became the Duchess of Windsor. But Don Felipe was no mere tailor's dummy. He studied the U.S. and its economics. By 1931 he had become Ambassador, and in the next twelve years operated smoothly on friction-fraught issues...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, having found the Duchess' 70-year-old "Aunt Bessie" Merryman nicely recovering in a Boston hospital from a broken hip, moved on to Newport for genteel whoop-de-do. Boston newspapers had counted the couple's luggage, duly reported 31 pieces. For that, the Duchess gave interviewers a lecture, called it all "most extraordinary," pointed out that the 31 pieces were not just for herself and husband but also a maid, a valet and a secretary. Wrote Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham: "Possibly I'm stupid but it seems to me that this makes...
...scion of the brilliant house of Cecil, which has furnished Britain with some of its most distinguished statesmen and soldiers. His father is the Marquess of Exeter; from him some day Lord Burghley will inherit enormous estates in Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire. His wife is a sister of the Duchess of Gloucester. Lord Burghley looks like someone disguised as a handsome, sporting Englishman, but his is no masquerade...
Elisabeth Bergner, playing in The Two Mrs. Carrolls (TIME, Aug. 16), looked forward with relish to her next play, John Webster's early 17th Century The Duchess of Malfi. "It is an incestuous play," she explained. "A woman almost gives birth to a baby on the stage, a woman almost rapes a man on the stage...
...Play (produced by John Golden and the Second Service Command). Last fall Producer John Golden (Lightnin', Claudia) announced a one-act play contest for soldiers. Last June he offered the top five of 114 entries to a special audience that included Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, a ton of Army & Navy brass hats. The audience's enthusiasm aroused the public's envy, and last week Producer Golden offered The Army Play by Play on Broadway for a short...