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...They meet Dr. Aziz (expertly played by Zia Mohyeddin), a Moslem who is young, charming, overemotional, awkward and desperately anxious to please. His position, India's and Britain's are dryly summed up by two incidents. Before the ladies come, Fielding cannot find his back collar stud, and the puppyish Aziz plucks out his own and forces the principal to take it. Later Miss Quested's fiancé, by his own admission a "sundried bureaucrat," uses Aziz to illustrate the hopeless flaw in the Indian character: the man is neatly dressed, he points out, except...
...nature whose body enslaved her. To make her point, small (5 ft. 4 in.), shapely Coloratura Carroll appeared in some of the wispiest costumes ever seen on a Hannover stage. Her performance was consistently convincing, and her singing-even in the treacherous passages of rhythmically charged speech that stud the opera-was superb. Wrote the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung: "She came, sang, acted and conquered...
...Towers, a villa in Lausanne (with a bowling alley in the basement), a 350-ton yacht that plies the summer Mediterranean, a seven-story house on Paris' Avenue Matignon ("My husband is a perfectionist, and so he would rather build a building than live in an apartment"), a stud farm in Normandy, and a mansion near Palm Beach at Lake Worth, Fla. The Florida property is divided by U.S. Highway A1A, faces the lake on one side and the beach on the other; the two halves are connected by a specially built tunnel under the highway that Mrs. Guinness...
Having dealt with the livestock, Debbie promptly takes on some other critters: a passel of outlaws, a crooked sheriff (Ken Scott) and a charming cardsharp (Steve Forrest) whose favorite game is stud. Elected sheriff, she soon has the bad guys where they belong, and the charmer where she wants him-making proposals instead of propositions...
...horse-race prize is a cash purse and a gleaming trophy. But last week in New South Wales, the Bathurst Turf Club announced something new: payment in kind. To the lucky horse that wins the club's big February race for fillies and mares will go one free stud service (worth $1,180) from Tulloch, a famed stallion that won $247,776 before he was retired. "We are convinced," said Club Secretary Gordon Bourke, "that the prize will cause great interest...