Word: royalities
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Queen Elizabeth II, a veteran of inspection tours, reviewed troupe from the cancan line of Paris' Moulin Rouge backstage after the annual Royal Variety Performance at London's Theater Royal, Drury Lane. One of the sketches must have sounded like dinner-table talk to Her Majesty. The skit featured Actor Mike Yarwood and Actress Suzanne Danielle as Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, fretting over the arrival of their future heir. While Danielle knitted, Yarwood brooded over a list of possible princely names, then said wistfully: "I want my children to have the little things that...
...five of his symphonies-he has since written a sixth-with the redoubtable Berlin Philharmonic. His opera The Bassarids was given a triumphant first production in 1966 at that bastion of conservatism, the Salzburg Festival; another opera, We Come to the River, was premiered by London's Royal Opera ten years later. Commissions are plentiful, and Henze is active as a conductor of his own music. Last week in Chicago, the composer led the mighty Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program devoted entirely to his works-something that in this country is practically unheard of for any living composer...
...bred without a topcoat (guard hairs) and have a downy, curly undercoat. The Russian Blue, which originated in Archangel in northern Russia, is a thick-coated, green-eyed, gray-blue cat of some popularity. Blues are shy, retiring and fond of winter. The Siamese came to the ancient royal family of Siam from somewhere else. No one knows where. This most neurotic, intelligent and wonderfully expressive feline made its U.S. debut with Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1870s. The spirited, assertive Somali is a long-haired Abyssinian with agouti coloring-each hair is individually striped with brown or black...
Broadway congenitally hears more "voices" than Joan of Arc. Even before the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic production of Nicholas Nickleby opened at the Plymouth Theater on Oct. 4 for a three-month run, the voices of Mammon and Cassandra could be heard muttering their dire prophecies along Shubert Alley. Mammon said that no sane person would pay the unprecedented price of $100 a ticket. Cassandra moaned that 8½ hours in a seated position, with only a one-hour dinner break, was a spartan rigor that no human frame could endure. (Agreed Socialite C.Z. Guest: "The only...
Throughout this turmoil one hardly notices the single truly successful player in Funeral Games. Ptolemy, staff officer and reputed half-brother of Alexander, shuns the immediate scramble for a fumbled empire. He assumes, instead, a dignified role as royal undertaker, removing himself and Alexander's body to safe and cultivated Egypt. There, the hero's spirit lives on in the city of Alexandria, Ptolemy writes a history of his times and founds a dynasty that lasts until the death of Cleopatra...