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...reminiscences of their elders, that her name could, for one last time, command the front page. Mary Pickford had been absent since 1933 from the movie screen that she had once dominated. For the past 13 years of her life, she was a recluse at Pickfair, the Beverly Hills mansion she had lived in since 1920, when she married Douglas Fairbanks, one of her few peers in silent films...
...Graham, looking haggard, stayed in Tallahassee, avoiding anti-death penalty protesters who blocked his outer office at the state capitol and who kept vigil at the front gate of his mansion, chanting "Bloody Bob! Bloody Bob!" Graham supports capital punishment as a deterrent, maintaining that it is "not inconsistent with Christian values." Said he, while signing the death warrants...
...White House Chef Henry Haller, preparing a sit-down dinner for 1,340 people who were dropping by on short notice was a bit of a challenge. The 1,100 Ibs. of strip sirloin had to be cooked at the Mayflower Hotel, six blocks away because the Executive Mansion did not have enough oven space. One other problem was that 110 of the meals had to be kosher. Schleiders Caterers of Baltimore did not get the call until Saturday, but they were able to prepare kosher meals similar to the regular fare that would be served on the big night...
...some harsh pre-signing words last week (see WORLD). Said one Carter aide: "We need a cease-fire on rhetoric right now." The actual signing would be in the early afternoon before 1,500 guests, including the entire Congress, who would assemble on the front lawn of the Executive Mansion. The evening was to include an ecumenical religious service at the Lincoln Memorial and a lavish state dinner on the South Lawn of the White House. On Tuesday, Sadat and Begin were scheduled to address members of the two chambers of Congress...
...Loeb production emphasizes the tableaux over the characters, but it does so with a brilliance in staging that brings out Chekhov's geometry and starkly, pictorially dramatizes the characters' relationship to each other. The operatic staging also serves to divorce the characters from the world outside the Prozorov mansion, emphasizing their isolation. Their grand gestures and melodramatic speeches seem absurd and meaningless, as observed from a distant height...