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...purebred Siamese and gave her a bigger share of laughs in a Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose of her cuckolded husband. When he asked how she could save enough from her house keeping money to buy mink coats, she replied airily: "It isn't easy." Her hus band bought the explanation, and so did happy Panther fans...
...Ophelia. Her secret is not true versatility-there is never any question that behind the makeup it is Julie Harris. Audiences flock to her performances precisely because she can mimic no one but herself; she simply takes on each challenging role and wraps it around her like soft mink. Judging from the length of the line at Skyscraper's box office, the fit this time is fine...
...Magnin & Co., and indeed, Margaret's whole trip-together with her top-secret wardrobe-is meant, among other things, to boost Britain's $10 million-a-year fashion trade with the U.S. For the luncheon, Margaret wore a silver-and-white brocade dress with matching coat, a mink hat and a spray of diamonds. For U.S. women, who are continually perplexed by British royalty's choice of clothes, the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis elucidated: "It is the kind of thing British royalty often wears, whether snipping a ribbon or watching the horses at Ascot...
...inaugural gala and they were all there, from a pride of Rockefellers to Mrs. Fred Eberstadt in her Yves St. Laurent black mink-and-vinyl coat. And loving it. "Beautiful," exclaimed Saks Fifth Avenue President Adam Gimbel. "Glorious," said onetime White House Arts Adviser August Heckscher. "The most beautiful theater," exclaimed Hollywood Producer Otto Preminger. "Marvelous and effective," said Playwright Alan Jay Lerner. So, last week, with a popping of flashbulbs and champagne corks, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, latest unit to join Manhattan's Lincoln Center, swung into orbit with its opening production, Georg Buechner's 130-year...
Furriers are even cutting capers with the traditional mink. Bergdorf Goodman's Emeric Partos punches holes in white mink coats, fills them with dark mink. Kaplan, who jazzes up his regular ranch-mink coats with shirt-cuff sleeves and double-breasted brass buttons, features a striking horizontally worked white mink with three wide black-velvet bands, and a $5,000 reversible "gaudy mink" that is gold lamé on one side, natural ranch on the other. Philosophizes Kaplan, who came within a thesis of a Ph.D. in philosophy: "For years, buying a mink was such a serious thing. When...