Word: orsinis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given its world première last week at Washington's Lisner Auditorium, Bomarzo is based on a prizewinning novel by Buenos Aires Art Critic Manuel Mujica Lainez, who also wrote the libretto. In 15 taut, hallucinatory scenes that take place mostly in the mind of Pierfrancesco Orsini, Renaissance Duke of Bomarzo, it flashes back over the events of the Duke's "secret life, which like the hump on my back, encumbered my soul...
...drinks in the lounge of the Alta Lodge, some folk songs by Chef Ray Conrad. In Vermont, après-ski is livelier, with apparently inexhaustible crowds carrying on until 1 a.m. at such swinging spots as the Red Rob Inn at Killington, Orsini's new Red Barn at Sugarbush, and Stowe's Baggy Knees...
...merge verge," as Earl Wilson put it) when Lynda and George visited Manhattan. One night they dined at "21," attended a penthouse party for Actress Ruth Ford after her Broadway opening in Dinner at Eight, then danced until 1 a.m. at El Morocco. Another evening they dined at Orsini's with Actress Merle Oberon, her husband Bruno Pagliai, and the Henry Fords, afterward returned to El Morocco...
...later, Durie married Thomas H. Shevlin, son of a famed Yale football end (1902-05) and wealthy Minneapolis lumberman, Thomas Leonard Shevlin. The marriage, at Fort Lee, N.J., on July n, 1947, was Shevlin's second. His first wife, Lorraine, was the daughter of Pasadena Socialite Princess Laura Orsini; she had first been married to Robert McAdoo, son of President Wilson's Treasury Secretary. She is now married to Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, and is a good friend of President and Mrs. Kennedy's. In divorcing Shevlin, Lorraine was ultimately granted a lump...
Just when Roman gossips all but had Iran's beautiful ex-Queen Soraya married off to Italy's suave Prince Raimondo Orsini, Soraya, 27, effectively stilled the wagging tongues. With Orsini nowhere in sight, she traipsed off to Switzerland and the courtly attentions of well-to-do German Industrialist Harold von Bohlen und Halbach, 43. In St. Moritz, skiing by day and dancing far into cozy candlelit nights, Soraya and her companion appeared to be verging on a beautiful friend ship. Was it romance? The only clue came from the tall, blondish bachelor, who turned to a lone...