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...prototype in Detroit) caught on a chair, she came close to tears. Proud and protective in his lieutenant general's uniform, Baudouin leaned over to whisper a soothing word, and soon the royal couple were joking with the burgomaster of Brussels about the 20 papers the bride and groom were called upon to sign...
Invitation to a March (by Arthur Laurents) takes place, on the eve of a summer wedding, outside two Long Island beach houses. In one house are the young bride and her middle-class mother, with the groom and his rich parents as house guests. In the other house lives a woman who many summers before, had a passionate affair with the groom's father, and with her lives the fruit of that affair, her proudly loyal son. This son now meets the unawakened bride, and love flares up; the father meets the woman again, and love has its past...
...best of the asides are amusing. But beneath the cleverness there lurks no substance whatever, while mixed in with it is something distastefully meretricious. Much more than it is frank or funny about sex, the play seems merely lip smacking. Eileen Heckart is properly brittle as the groom's mother, and as the unmarried one, Celeste Holm, when not forced to "be a noble heroine, is a delightful comedienne. But Invitation to a March is as inconsequentially contemporary as a beach house, and about equally built on sand...
...film. At one point (in one of many flashbacks) the young gynecologist interrupts his best friend's wedding with the news that he is going to marry his best friend's betrothed. The action begins with a furniture-throwing brawl between the bride elect and her drunken groom (the gynecologist having been laid out quite early in the festivities), and ends in a glorious reconciliation, with all three sitting down together to the wedding banquet...
...AIMS TO BE BRIDE. The Queen Mother, 59, and a widow for eight years, said the News, may wed Sir Arthur Penn, a bachelor of 74. Sir Arthur is now treasurer of the Queen Mother's household as well as Queen Elizabeth II's extra equerry and groom in waiting. Next day, in Northern Rhodesia on a royal tour of Africa, Queen Mother Elizabeth made it abundantly plain that, whatever else he may be, Sir Arthur is definitely not a bridegroom in waiting. Announced her private secretary: Reports that such a marriage is contemplated are "complete and absolute...