Word: queens
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...Chateau de Ville in Framingham, Mass., where as many as four dances may be going on in one evening, and the management hopes that the girls will come back some day for their weddings. Around Long Beach, Calif., one of the most popular prom spots is aboard the Queen Mary, now serving as a floating hostelry in her genteel retirement. The ballrooms of the onetime grande dame of the North Atlantic are crowded with ten or so dances a week, and the demand is so high, says Scheduler Ann Hunter, "that we are already booking proms...
...founded a model United Nations at U.Va. and captained the women's fencing team. She hand-letters medieval-style manuscripts for "relaxation" and this summer plans to take a course in Arabic at Georgetown University (because "it's absolutely gorgeous calligraphy") before sailing on the Queen Elizabeth II to England. Burke is modest about her scholastic feats. "I may be one of the first women Rhodes scholars to go to Oxford," she says, "but I could also be the first one sent home...
...were less than full on opening day, and the streets were hardly crammed with festival goers. Less than 2,000 paying customers showed up at the 2,700-seat Gaillard Municipal Auditorium for the first big evening event-the four-hour uncut production of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, first introduced last year at Spoleto, Italy. But if the variety and excellence of the first week's offerings were fair guides, Spoleto U.S.A. should become a success...
Matters went more smoothly that evening during The Queen of Spades (in English) at the Gaillard auditorium. Backstage facilities are cramped, and the pit holds only 65 musicians. Fortunately, they were 65 of the best young instrumentalists Keene could recruit from around the U.S. Said Keene proudly: "It's the finest orchestra Spoleto has ever had." Leading the players adroitly through the lushly colored Tchaikovsky score, Guide Ajmone-Marsan, the Italian-born conductor, made a brilliant U.S. operatic debut...
Vellucci last night appealed to anyone knowing of Cambridge citizens older than 107 years to notify his office before the June 8th crowning of the king and queen of the senior...