Word: empresse
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...Akihito nodded to 200 official greeters (including Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and U.S. Ambassador John M. Allison) on his march down the 50-yd. carpet, waved to 500,000 rain-washed faithful on the drive to the Imperial Palace. There he was received by his parents, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, who had watched his arrival on television...
...back in London for another busy theater season. They began rehearsals for their new play, The Sleeping Princess (Actress Leigh's first stage role since recovering from last spring's nervous breakdown), and were photographed helping famed British Actress Helen Haye* (still going strong playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in Anastasia) blow out the candles at her 79th birthday party...
...Says an old garment-industry saw: "Women are slaves to fashion for two reasons. One is that they want to look different from other women; the other is that they want to look like other women." Thus, women may be swept up in new fashion crazes such as the Empress Eugenie hats of the '30s or the stoles of today, but they must always feel that the particular hats or stoles they are buying are just a little different. When individuality comes in, mass production goes out and costs go up; if bigger production comes in, then...
...have felt," said he, "that one of the reasons why the millinery business has not kept pace is that since the war we have had nothing as radical as the Empress Eugenie silhouette,* which made every existing fashion as dead as the dodo...
...chorus and soloists conducted by Walter Goehr; Concert Hall, 3 LPs). Monteverdi's last opera (1642) and his most affecting score, rich in musical compassion and credible characterization. The story, which might have trouble with contemporary film censors, tells how Poppea, Nero's mistress, ousts the rightful empress and triumphantly takes her place on the Roman throne. The recording is notable for some superb singing by Soprano Sylvia Gähwiller and Contralto Maria Helbling in a fine cast...