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Sitting before her television set one day last week, Mrs. Luke Choplin of Independence, Mo. watched with fascination as Prince Rainier took Grace Kelly for his bride. While Mrs. Choplin kept her eye on far-off Monaco, linemen toiled away equipping her house with extra telephone wires to accommodate a New York Times reporter who had arranged to use the Choplin home as a communications center on Margaret Truman's wedding...
...stuff that celluloid dreams are made of, but the reality kept threatening to get in the way of the romance. With lovely Grace herself to play the part of the screen-star daughter of an American bricklayer turned millionaire, and Monaco's own Serene Highness, Prince Rainier III. as her handsome betrothed, the plot was the kind that producers understand and fans love. But Hollywood, Philadelphia and Ruritania are far easier to mix on film than they are in fact: so pat a plot raised the question whether two hearts were meeting or merely two dazzling luminaries being drawn...
...Crowd Descends. Prince Rainier's tiny, near-bankrupt gambling principality was suddenly swelled by an invasion of wildly ill-assorted guests, invited and uninvited: friends and members of the bride's and groom's own families, the Kellys from Philadelphia, the Grimaldis and Polignacs from divers corners of Europe, a kaleidoscopic assortment of celebrities from both sides of the Atlantic, ballet troupes from London and Paris, sailors from visiting warships, a scattering of second-class princelings, an unidentified covey of international thieves (who got away with a whopping $150,000 during the festivities), and some...
...Kelly-Rainier Wedding (Wed. 6 p.m., NBC). On-the-spot report of ceremony...
...Kelly-Rainier Wedding (Sat. n p.m., CBS). Highlights of the week-long festivities...