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...last performance and disbanded. In the end there were not enough Savoyard loyalists to pay the costs of a 100-member company. The Arts Council of Great Britain, hard pressed to subsidize the National Theater and the Old Vic, rejected an appeal for funds. Sir. Charles Forte (created Lord Forte two months ago), of the Trusthouse Forte hotel chain, launched a fund drive to reform and modernize D'Oyly Carte, but it will be several months before anyone knows whether the necessary ?1 million can be found...
...tidbits leaked to the Washington Post of what Secretary of State Alexander Haig said privately to his senior staff over the course of a year, the most memorable was his description of the British Foreign Secretary. He called Lord Carrington a "duplicitous bastard." The Post was so proud of its sneak look at what it called the "unvarnished Haig" that it devoted about 300 sq. in. of one day's paper to Haig's "private and apparently candid pronouncements." It proved a damp squib...
...invective of Lloyd George, who said that Winston Churchill would "make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults are carefully crafted in Britain; Haig's was an impulsive throwaway. So there is no direct damage, except in embarrassment to Haig the next time...
...real damage of such journalism is what it does to trust among colleagues in Government. Shouldn't a Secretary of State be able to meet confidentially with his top assistants without having his exact words appear later in print? Haig's angry description of Lord Carrington more justly fits the person who leaked a year's notes of private meetings. Haig may now find himself driven to confiding in an ever smaller circle of advisers at some cost to other officials' knowing his views firsthand, and to his hearing theirs...
...soon observed spending more time in boudoirs than in darkrooms. When the lonely princess and mother of two takes up with an eligible aristocrat, Roddy Llewellyn, the earl appears on television. There, playing the crocodile cuckold, he tearfully begs indulgence for Princess Margaret and the children. "Lord Snowdon," Margaret concludes, "was devilish cunning...