Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great Britain's Princess Anne dresses like "a royal auto mechanic." Rockmaster Elton John "would be the campiest spectacle in the Rose Parade if he entered." Singer Bette Midler seems unaware that "pantaloons went out with hoop skirts." So says Hollywood Designer Richard Blackwell, 53, in his 16th annual "worst-dressed" list. Blackwell, who named Jacqueline Onassis among the worst-dressed women of 1971, gave the top award this year to Daughter Caroline Kennedy, 18. She looks like "a shaggy dog in pants," snipped Blackwell, adding, "Who says bad taste isn't inherited...
...dress to freak everyone out of their minds but the novelty was beginning to pall and I was yearning for my jeans. That evening we had a sedate family dinner, complimented the Christmas tree, and the fire-engine red harpsichord L.S.'s father had made as well as the royal blue room he had built onto the house...
That is what The Royal Family, one of the smash hits of 1927, is all about, and it is being given a grand, ebullient revival at Manhattan's Helen Hayes Theater. The Royal Family is graced with performances that are almost too good to be true. The settings (Oliver Smith) are right, the costumes (Ann Roth) are right, and Ellis Rabb's direction hits just the right pitch of flamboyant extraversion that constitutes the temper of the play...
...royal clan derives from the Barrymores, with echoes of the Drews. The grande dame who wields the scepter in this kingdom is Fanny Cavendish (Eva Le Gallienne), an ailing titaness of the footlights with the tongue of an asp and a heart of melting butter. But pandemonium is really the ruler of the realm...
There is an earnest, greedy producer, Oscar (Sam Levene), with a treacherous streak of total affection for the Cavendishes. And that's not the end of it, by half. In 1927 they did not have to count the cast. A Royal Family is a love letter to the theater and those who, contrary to all sound reason, persist in loving...