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...your story on the two recent balls in Portugal and Soraya's comment on them, I would like to transmit to you the feeling-as a reader and subscriber-that TIME can err as an unusual consequence of work, but should apologize whenever necessary for the errors, especially if personal images are involved. It is a fact that Soraya did not attend any of the parties, and I'm afraid TIME can't be sure of her having made the referred-to statement. So, TIME should loyally apologize, and not just "note the demurrer...
...SORAYA ESFANDIARI...
...Schlumbergers' two. The moon was bright, the night clear and cool, as Patiño had hoped. And all the same people were there, the ladies in different gowns, to embrace and exclaim. No one could bear to miss a moment. As Iran's ex-Queen Soraya explained: "I'm very pained over what happened in Iran. But an earthquake can happen anywhere. That's no reason for me not to go to a ball...
...like A Thousand and One Nights," wrote one awed critic. He was dazzled by the floodlights, befurred lovelies and police cordons restraining the spectators outside Milan's Teatro Nuovo, where Producer Dino de Laurentiis was premiering Three Faces of a Woman, starring his latter-day Scheherazade, Princess Soraya, 32. Iran's former Empress arrived in a Rolls-Royce, wearing green silk to match her eyes, with diamonds insured for $1,000,000. And her on-screen performance-well, what did it matter? Said Rome's Paese Sera gently: "She has the attributes for becoming a real actress...
...want of a male, the show was lost. Italian Producer Dino de Laurentiis announced that he was canceling a movie in which he had planned to star Princess Soraya, 32, because he was unable to "modernize" a Henry James novel, The American, sufficiently to suit her talents. But the whisper along Rome's Via Veneto had it that Soraya was the one who had refused to modernize: as Iran's ex-Queen, she had imperiously insisted on top billing, and no star De Laurentlis approached would play second fiddle to an amateur. In private, Soraya's escort...