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...cutaways mingled with others in fur-flapped caps and knee-length yakskin boots last week outside the tiny Buddhist chapel in Sikkim's dollhouse Himalayan capital of Gangtok. Wedding parcels from Tiffany's were piled side by side with bundled gifts of rank-smelling tiger and leopard skins. Over 28,146-ft. Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain and Sikkim's "protecting deity," hung a blue haze. It was an "auspicious sign," said Gangtok astrologers, for the wedding of a quiet, blue-eyed New York girl, Hope Cooke, 22, and Gyalsay Rimpoche Maha-rajkumar...
Bogs & Bourgeoisie. The stars tend to shed their early backgrounds and blend into new surroundings as well in Europe as they once did in Hollywood. East Harlem's Burt Lancaster, a sometime Swiss, settled his family in Palermo's great Villa Scalea during the filming of The Leopard, and there lived the life of an aging nobleman with yacht. A few Hollywood people, mainly writers such as Nunnally Johnson, are hearty enough to have settled comfortably in England, and the Paris group-Ingrid Bergman, Jean...
...Stories and a Memory, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. Excellent minor pieces by the Sicilian prince whose elegiac novel of nobility's erosion, The Leopard, was a bestseller two years ago. The author's memoir of the great houses he lived in as a child is particularly good...
Stables and Portraits. The memoir is a lovingly conducted tour through what obviously are the stage settings for The Leopard. The best of this recollection begins with Lampedusa's description of the annual family removal from Palermo to the vast summer house at Santa Margherita Belice. The train ride seemed hot and endless to little Giuseppe. There were no toilets aboard; the family bought a cheap brown chamber pot for him, which was thrown out the window just before the end of the trip. The summer house was a vast affair that the author describes as "a kind...
Aristocratically, he refused to read translations. Finally, near the end of his life, he began to write. The fragment of a novel included in the present book carries the theme of The Leopard-the ruin of the noble traditions-into the 20th century...