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Married. Princess Peggy d'Arenberg, 35, blonde jet setter and oil (Jersey Standard) heiress; and the Duc d'Uzés, 40, darkly handsome French nobleman (his title is the oldest in France); she for the third time, he for the second; in Marrakesh, Morocco...
...touch distinctly recalled 18th century Versailles. But in the jet age, sailing by flower-bedecked barges to a make-believe Cythera will no longer do. It must be by plane, with champagne corks popping all the way. The destination can be anywhere - Acapulco, Moscow, Marrakesh. Last week it was Nassau, and for today's féte galante it was no moody grotto but the brand-new $55 million Paradise Island Hotel. Still, a touch of magic was called for, and the wand that summoned all the Beautiful People to court was held as usual by Serge Obolensky...
...interpreter of Shakespeare and Shaw, co-starring with Dame May Whitty, Katharine Cornell, Judith Anderson and Helen Hayes. What is he doing playing opposite Adam West in Batman? Evans concedes that the TV scripts are sometimes "ridiculous" and the casts hardly top drawer. There are physical hazards, too. In Marrakesh, while filming / Spy, a street urchin stole his arch supports! On the Tarzan set in Mexico, his pants were singed in a fire, and he got cut and bruised clambering up a cliff...
...refused to violate the picket lines, ripening hillocks of garbage forced nose-holding pedestrians into the street. Some West Siders demonstrated their disgust by instituting communal "toss-outs," and the heaps of cans, bottles and more malodorous detritus on the streets made much of the city look more like Marrakesh than Manhattan. Atop a garbage heap near Park Avenue stood a sour sign: "Fun City...
...days a year. The capital city of Rabat now has a luxurious new Hilton Hotel (up to $18 a day), a swinging night life, and a high-powered crowd of jet-set visitors, who include Princess Lee Radziwill, Mick Jagger and Paul Getty Jr. (who recently bought a Marrakesh palace...