Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth is certainly getting gear. Last year, at the behest of the swinging Labor government, she put the Beatles on her birthday list as Members of the Order of the British Empire, an honor the shaggies won for all the cash that their noise had contributed to the empire's balance of payments. This time, for rather the same reason, Her Majesty named fab Fashion Designer Mary Quant, 32, doyenne of the Chelsea group's knee-baring, hippy styles, as an officer of the O.B.E. Her fad is siphoning so much loot into Albion...
...played Liz Taylor's older sister in National Velvet, Hurd Hatfield's girl friend in Picture of Dorian Gray, Charles Boyer's maid in Gaslight, the wayward Queen in The Three Musketeers, the Other Woman in State of the Union, Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii, Warren Beatty's mother in All Fall Down, and Laurence Harvey's mother in Manchurian Candidate...
Louis XV offered it to his Queen in 1741, only to take it back a few years later and install Madame de Pompadour in the apartment next to his. An amateur botanist, he made its garden famous throughout Europe for its hothouse pineapples, coffee and figs. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette preferred the nearby, smaller Petit Trianon, but this did not spare either building when revolutionaries carted off their contents...
...grander scale was a superb new ballet based on Purcell's music for The Faerie Queen, starring Britain's Dame...
Died. James Woolf, 46, acidly witty British producer who in 1949 joined with his brother John to form Romulus Films Ltd., responsible for some of cinema's best (Room at the Top, The African Queen, I Am a Camera)', of a heart attack; in Hollywood...