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...scheduled time, in the U.S. Pavilion theater, the curtain rose on the Ballet Theatre. The first work on the bill was Theme and Variations, but variations predominated: girls in Sylphides tutus and men in tights, which had just arrived from New York, leaped and twirled against a backdrop from Gala Performance...
...himself. But any action he might now take would seem to be merely a surrender to the council. Throughout the trying week. Rainier kept stonily silent in his pink palace. After all, Monaco was still Monaco, and royalty had other duties to perform. For one thing, there was the gala $23-a-plate dinner and world film premiere of Kings Go Forth for the benefit of the Monegasque Red Cross. Everyone from Gina Lollobrigida to Frank Sinatra. Noel Coward and Bette Davis was there. At the last moment, however, two of the star attractions, those old-shoe American tourists...
...sing anywhere." The stage floor of London's Royal Opera House sags and some of its scenery dates back to 1908, but the theater's acoustics are still near perfect. This week, slightly faded but resonant, Covent Garden celebrates its 100th birthday in a gala performance for the Queen. The generous birthday package includes extracts from The Bohemian Girl, The Trojans, Peter Grimes, Aida, I Puritani (Maria Callas singing), plus the Royal Ballet's Birthday Offering...
...suits from London and monogrammed shirts from Paris (though they do nothing for his built-in rumples). Asked his favorite color, Gunther beams: "Smoked salmon-Prunier's, of course, not Reuben's." Nor would Host Gunther dream of serving domestic champagne at his massive parties. For one gala, co-hosted at the Gun-thers' house by Claude Philippe of the Waldorf, liveried footmen carried scrolls to invite the 80 guests...
Girls & Hardware. The day after Khrushchev's speech came the public climax of the anniversary gala-the four-hour parade through Red Square during which the Soviet armed forces traditionally show off their new weapons. This year, after Khrushchev's talk of intercontinental missiles and the persistent rumor that the Russians had sent up a rocket timed to hit the moon Nov. 7, the parade was an anticlimax. Though Rome's Communist daily L'Unità had confidently predicted that the day would be fine, because "Soviet experts are capable of creating good weather," the Moscow...