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After this, the audience knows that nothing painful, nothing honest, nothing real will be inflicted upon it. In Oliver twisted, the Thieves' Kitchen becomes an urban Sherwood Forest, with Robin Hood Fagin teaching his pickpocketeers to rob from the rich and give to the deserving poor-themselves. The grim workhouses, stews and drinking dens of London become playgrounds for boys with a taste for adventure. The biggest laugh of the evening comes when Fagin paternally growls at his charges, "Shut up and drink...
Katherine, the novel's shy and lonely heroine, leaves her unnamed European country one summer to visit a family in England. She falls in love with the son, Robin, but is put off by his flawless British manners, his utter imperturbability, "this sandpapering of every word and gesture until it exactly fits its place in the conversation." Robin's true emotions can not crack his polished exterior...
...kind hearts with no coronets. "What interests me is not the crown, but what's beneath the crown." says France's Princess Isabelle. daughter of the French Pretender, the Count of Paris. A commoner should of course have money. Sweden's royal family ruled British Playboy Robin Douglas-Home (nephew of Foreign Secretary Lord Home) "unsuitable" as a consort for Princess Margaretha because of his low income. "You can't expect this young lady to get along without at least one maid," explained a palace spokesman...
...sure, Robin, a canary, died. Tom Kitten, a cat, was given away and died thereafter. A rabbit, presented to the President with the claim that he could play a trumpet, apparently went off on a toot and has not been seen in months...
Born. To Angler Biddle Duke, 46, impeccable State Department Chief of Protocol, heir to an American Tobacco Co. fortune, who lost his third wife in a plane crash last year, and blonde, bubbly Robin Chandler Duke, 39, onetime boss of Pepsi-Cola's public relations department: a son; in Washington...