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...Bugs & Lace. When Cooper forgot the wounds suffered in such snob warfare, he was a remarkably sensible observer. "We are going up and England is coming down," he noted time and again. Within 50 years, he predicted in 1831, "the government of England will become exactly what Lafayette wished to make France-a nominal monarchy, but virtually a re-publick." He added: "The prestige of their detestable aristocracy will for a long time linger in the slavish minds of their people." When in France, he wrote that England "is a country which knows well how to handle a king." Straight...
...Music Room of Buckingham Palace, Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, using water from the River Jordan, baptized lace-robed Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, the seven-week-old baby who stands second in line of succession to the British throne. Before the royal family and 60 guests, the archbishop turned to Prince Andrew's five godparents, including the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra, and intoned: "Dost thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all the covetous desires of the same...
...says a La Scala tenor, "can be pretty tough on a hot-blooded Sicilian like me." Even on La Scala's great stage, Mezzo Lane's voice was opulent and brilliant, rich as piled velvet. When she went to her death, proudly erect and dressed in white lace, the house burst into round after round of applause...
...Logan, helped start the University Players and hit the big time after he directed Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in Robert Sherwood's Idiot's Delight (1936) and in Jean Giradoux's Amphitryon 38 (1937), went on -to stage Life with Father (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), Finian's Rainbow (1947), and The Great Sebastians (1956); in Manhattan...
Wearing a lace-trimmed Ukrainian shirt, a light grey suit and a snapbrim straw hat, he advanced briskly over the red carpet to greet his host, President Sukarno, who, with a flashing smile, said: "You have a big job ahead of you. You'll have many hands to shake...