Word: heiress
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...Bolton) derives from one of the most spacious and complex of all Henry James's novels, The Wings of the Dove. That alone may explain why the most recent of James's stage adaptations-which like the best of them might also have been called The Heiress-is among the most unsatisfactory. It is not so much that Adapter Bolton has violated James's novel (although he has made a host of small changes that reduce the book's great cumulative impact to emotional small change); it is much more that by diminishing James...
...Away from It, a revival of Frank Capra's 1934 Oscar-winning It Happened One Night, has withstood the ravages of time better than most. In its first release, the Samuel Hopkins Adams story of a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) and a jobless reporter (Clark Gable) who follows her movements with somewhat more than professional attention, was a sensation-and not only at the box office. It set a style of furiously farcical social satire that, during the rest of the decade, relieved the general depression with some of the wackiest, wittiest comedies (Nothing Sacred, Mr. Deeds Goes...
...grey-flannel-suited dirt farmerette from New Jersey named Doris Duke, better known as a money-marinated tobacco heiress and sometime jazz pianist, bitterly argued the merits of floribunda hedges and compost heaps in a Manhattan pretrial hearing. Her legal adversary was a sometime play producer named Luther (A Sleep of Prisoners) Greene, also something of an agrarian reformer, who claimed that Doris owed him $2,500 for applying his Greene thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget...
...given orders to broadcasting authorities not to permit the Queen to go on the air. Meanwhile, far from fulfilling his ordained role in the masquerade of renewed connubiality, Prince Bernhard, the Queen's husband, made less and less effort to conceal his true feelings, and Princess Beatrix, heiress to the throne, who is known to sympathize with her father, moved out of her mother's palace to take a room with an official's family near her university at Leiden...
Slender Leyla Gencer, 29, moved about San Francisco's rehearsal stage followed by approving smiles, inviting glances and, among the company's Italian singers, audible coos. The heiress of a family of Turkish landowners, she gave up the idea of developing her voice when she married a banker. But in 1948 he encouraged her to study at the conservatory. Today she is diva of the Turkish State Opera in Ankara and is known across Europe...