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...novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. "I rather enjoy being called Your Majesty all day," says Sellers. He is especially pleased at getting the royal treatment from his real-life wife, Lynne Frederick, 24, who co-stars in the film as the king's betrothed, Princess Flavia. So enamored is Sellers of his new cinematic self, a role made memorable by Ronald Colman in 1937, that should the imaginary kingdom of Ruritania ever materialize, he would be happy to take the job of king permanently. Says Sellers: "It's tax free. Why I've already got all sorts...
...fine binding"). His ties come from Turnbull's in London, his handmade shirts from Barclay's in Paris, his suits from Caraceni in Rome, his hats from Gélot of Paris, his eau de cologne from Penhaligon of London. He eats well at Drouant's in Paris, Taverna Flavia in Rome, La Cote Basque in Manhattan and Scott's in London (the coffee shop in Chicago's Pick-Congress Hotel, he says dreamily, makes the best waffles...
...inhabit his fictional world. Not a great deal happens. Nick's brother-in-law, Robert Tolland, is killed while serving in France with the Field Security Service. "Would he have made a lot of money in his export house trading with the Far East? Might he have married Flavia Wisebite? As in musical chairs, the piano stops suddenly, someone is left without a seat, petrified for all time in their attitude of that particular moment...
...unimpressed-particularly as she is already giving her aristocratic English husband a bad time, not because she won't put up with his love affairs, but because, sophisticated and all that, he just can not put up with hers. So Constanza is left with her daughter Flavia, who at the age of ten shows similar signs of wit and wantonness. It is very Grand Opera indeed, complete with a potty plot, gorgeous scenery, some nice, old-fashioned novelistic business about missing rubies and revoked wills, and mercifully crisp recitative...
Cotton Cloth. The tunic tradition goes back to Flavia Helena, wife of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus (he is said to have picked her up in a Balkan tavern during one of his campaigns) and mother of Constantine the Great. Converted to Christianity about 312, Helena later journeyed to the Holy Land, went to Calvary, and (wrote St. Ambrose 70 years later) "had excavations made, the debris cleared away and unearthed three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler...