Word: messel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote a short story called House of Flowers about the ladies of a bordello on a Caribbean island. When he expanded it into a musical comedy in 1954, it fairly swarmed with talent-Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll sang, Geoffrey Holder danced, Balanchine worked on the choreography, Oliver Messel designed the sets, and Harold Arlen turned out a lilting, lyrical musical score. Nonetheless, House of Flowers faded fast...
...palace officials looked at Tony's friends and family, the more uneasy they became at the burgeoning of eccentricities. Tony has two stepmothers, one an actress presently married to an Italian lawyer named Giuseppe Lopez, the other a former airline hostess. (His mother, sister of Stage Designer Oliver Messel, is now married to the Earl of Rosse.) Also distressing is the zest with which foreign newspapers are exploring Tony's lively past. Last week the Paris France-Dimanche reported that Tony is expected to get rid of such old friends as a Hindu guitarist, a bistro owner, assorted...
Lucky Working Lad. He is, to begin with, a commoner, the son of Welsh Barrister Ronald Armstrong-Jones, 60, and his first wife, Anne, a sister of Stage Designer Oliver Messel. Young Tony is also a hard-working and extremely able photographer. The Laborite Daily Herald gushed: "Good wishes to Margaret and the lucky working lad she is to marry...