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...group of Miss Blueye's Radcliffe friends, concerned that nothing was being done to help her, took up a collection to send Heidi Ryan '70 to visit Miss Blueye's parents in Basom, New York...
...over from Paris for three weeks of filming on The April Fools, a romantic comedy about two sufferers of mal de mariage. And pity the folks dying to show her the town. What with costumers, hairdressers, script girls and the rest, it was almost a week before Socialites Heidi Vanderbilt and Cathy Macauley could crash through with a bash in her honor...
...large extent, it was. The center, which is called Corbusier's Maison d'Homme, was the idea of Heidi Weber, a vivacious blonde interior decorator who manufactures Le Corbusier-designed furniture in Switzerland. At first, the irascible old architect himself was opposed to the idea, but she won him over. Corbu drafted the plans and bequeathed the center his personal collection of lithographs. Then he died-and the controversy began...
Professors of architecture attacked the project as either too small or too costly. Proposed changes in Le Corbusier's original sketches came thick and fast. But after five years of persistent lobbying, Heidi finally won a 50-year lease from the city council on a prime lakeside park site. Backers were nonexistent. She herself raised or bor rowed 95% of the building's $120,000 cost. Some critics huffily insisted that Heidi had altered too many architectural details after the master's death...
...band of genuinely old troupers Raymond Walburn (78), Ernest Truex (75), Madge Kennedy (75), and Ethel Griffies (87), plus Ingénue Heidi Murray (17), handle with finesse lines that they ought scarcely to have touched. As Mrs. Lord, Ruth Gordon (69) relies on her trademarks rather than her talents, notably a nasally barbaric yawp of a voice that would have stopped Genghis Khan in his Asiatic steppes. Woman is her lost labor of self-love...