Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majesty Frederika, Queen of the Hellenes. Washington officialdom knew what to expect from the vivacious, curly-haired Queen; she had already made herself a big hit on her first trip to the U.S. five years ago. Sure enough, the lively Frederika danced into the capital with smiling, informal grace and two French poodles (Topsy and Toodles). With her were two of her three children: Crown Prince Constantine, Duke of Sparta, 18, and Princess Sophia, 20. Explained Frederika: King Paul stayed home to look after the country, and Princess Irene, 16, stayed home to look after the King...
...talk-half insulting and half elegant-a nice blend of spit and polish. The Donald Oenslager set is stylish. And with the help of a pleasant cast-Co-Author Skinner, Walter Abel, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Hart, George Peppard-Cyril Ritchard has carried things farther. Acting papa, he has the grace and precision of a lithe figure skater; directing the play, he keeps things high in the air, like a skillful balloonist...
...still regards public figures outside opera with the awe of a country girl on her first trip to the city. Several years ago she heard about the "Night in Monte Carlo" ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, at which Prince Rainier was to celebrate his engagement to Grace Kelly. Without a thought that she could have been an honored guest at the ball, Tebaldi went over to the Waldorf lobby, settled herself in a chair and sat there wide-eyed, waiting to see Grace and the prince sweep...
...even her staunchest supporters would claim that Tebaldi is a great or even a highly gifted actress. A tall (5 ft. 10 in.), ample woman with a handsome, highbrowed face, she generally moves through her roles with a kind of stolid and unvarying grace that sometimes reduces opera's garish-hued passions to a decorator's cool blues and whites...
...must surely have learned of the longstanding system under which the Vatican press corps hired-and even bribed-tipsters (usually laymen) on the papal staff. When, a few years ago, the papal physician peddled pictures of his patient down on the floor doing pushups, the Pope-with a grace few men could have mustered-forgave even this assault on the papal privacy.* But even the patient Pius would have been tried by some of the press relations that attended his death...