Word: royals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prince Charles, quietly celebrating his first birthday at Clarence House, had his accomplishments summed up for him by the British press, which unbent to the point of talking a little baby talk. The royal child weighs 25 Ibs., is tall for his age, has six teeth, already has taken his first steps, and has had his name put down for the Grenadier Guards. Only available quotes-considered adequate by most Britons-as his 40-lb. birthday cake was cut: "Papa...
...abashed, the Item ran another Page One picture of Otto and Virginia, reported the ROYAL HOUSEHOLD IN TURMOIL. Said the Item: "The last of the purported kaisers today had apparently abdicated his throne, after using it ... to get married to a socially prominent New Orleans woman . . . The bride is becoming suspicious. 'Who is he?' she wants to know...
Covent Garden's 24-year-old Producer Peter Brook had warned that his new Salome "is not a production; it's an hallucination." A superconfident, baby-faced wonder boy who likes to shock, Brook had looked for a designer for the Royal Opera House's first Salome of its own since 1936 who could "reflect visually both the cold, fantastic imagery of Wilde's text and the hot eroticism of [the late Richard] Strauss's music." In mustached Surrealist Salvador Dali, he thought he had found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans...
Prokofiev: Cinderella (the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Warwick Braithwaite conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The score for the ballet now being performed in Russia and by England's Sadler's Wells (TIME, Nov. 14), and what Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky calls "Soviet music-bah!" Completely undistinguished, it sounds more often like so-so Soviet Composer Khachaturian than great Composer Prokofiev. Performance and recording: good...
...from Hollywood, two dozen movie stars were hard at work last week at a booming cinema sideline: the personal-appearance tour. Braving the clothes-tugging of fans and the baying of autograph hounds, seven- stars had journeyed to London to show themselves at this week's Royal Film Performance. O'nce disdained as a last resort of the screen's has-beens, personal appearances have grown into a multi-million-dollar studio campaign to pep up a sluggish box office. Hollywood has learned that a star in the flesh can fatten a cinemansion's receipts...