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...natch." About her publicity-hating grandfather, Margaux is admiringly respectful, exulting: "Grandpa's spirit's in my marrow." But she prefers people to realize that it is Margaux, not Ernest, who is the big name today. She is even getting over her fear of competition. When Joan came to New York recently to promote the movie Rosebud, for which she had helped write the original novel, Margaux talked up Muffet's forthcoming cookbook, Picnic Gourmet, to the press...
When Ted Kennedy travels, there is no shortage of crowds. He even brings his own. On a tour of the Middle East last week, the Massachusetts Senator guided an entourage that included his wife Joan, daughter Kara, sisters Jean Smith and Pat Lawford, and her daughter Victoria. Sandwiched into their 6 a.m.-to-midnight schedule was a visit to the religious shrine in Meshed, Iran, where the women donned the hooded black robes required for entry into Moslem holy places. Elsewhere, however, there was less tourism and more talk of politics. How would Kennedy respond to a presidential draft...
Some 325 members strong, the Met flew to Japan for a three-week visit. The company brought along stars like Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Home, Adriana Maliponte, Luciano Pavarotti, Franco Corelli and John Alexander, and three of the most popular works in its repertory: Puccini's La Bohème, Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's La Traviata. The stand began with Traviata at Tokyo's 4,000-seat NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Hall. With Soprano Sutherland dying rapturously as Violetta and Tenor Alexander showing a cad's remorse as Alfredo...
...Knew you couldn't get them together, even for a 25th reunion," says Joan Braverman Pinck, president of the Radcliffe student body in 1950 and now an assistant dean at the Business School. "It is a very individualistic group of people...
...hits its peak in the next week. Ophuls's The Earrings of Madame De... is a beautiful, refined story with counts and barons and ballroom scenes, staircases and grand entrances, but a lot to say about this ethereal world. It plays tonight with Letter From an Unknown Woman with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jordan. and starting Sunday, Asquith's version of Pygmallon, with Leslie Howard playing Higgins young and tough-as-nails, which sometimes works well. Wendy hiller's Eliza Doolittle is absolutely amazing. Playing with arguably Katherine Hepburn's best work, Summertime, seldom shown. When Hepburn talked to Cavett...