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Perambulating mops known as Yorkshire terriers had their fragile silken locks bound up in wax paper and rubber bands whenever they were out of the ring; often they wore woolen booties to keep from scratching up their own coiffures. But the most pampered were the poodles. Ch. Wilber White Swan, a tiny (just 6 Ibs.) four-year-old poodle, patiently put up with hours of clipping, shearing, shampooing (with bluing), and. of course, the inevitable, endless bout with brush and comb. Some 70 toy poodles, including eight of Wilber's get, stole the show...
...aftermath of Grace's engagement to the Prince (TIME, Jan. 16), the week's actual events were sparse. Grace went back to Hollywood to finish The Swan, a movie about a girl who marries a prince. The Prince went to Florida to take a rest. Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, the man who owns the bank at Monte Carlo and who will be spared the fate of French taxes if the Prince sires an heir, announced, "I am mad with joy," and celebrated the engagement by giving 1,000,000 francs to the Monaco Red Cross...
Changing Muscles. Ballet first touched Japan in the '20s, made its mark with a tour by the late, swanlike Anna Pavlova, but Nippon stayed off its toes until after World War II. In 1946 the occupation forces blessed a performance of Swan Lake-all four acts of it-staged by a pickup Japanese troupe. It was headed by a tigerish young dancer named Masahide Komaki, who had studied ballet with Russian refugees. The production had a grand total of only 22 dancers (v. 64 for Sadler's Wells' Swan Lake today). Optimistically booked for one week...
Last week, while 2,600 spectators chewed on their sembei (rice crackers), the curtain rose on Tokyo's 1956 season with Komaki's production of Swan Lake. The settings were Nordic in an almond-eyed kind of way, with an Oriental fishing junk afloat in a futuristic fjord. But the dancing was more nearly up to Occidental snuff, with 19-year-old Masako Sunaga and 5 ft. 3 in. Naoto Seki prancing and soaring in nearly flawless technique...
...Arthur S. Genet, 46, a railroader, was named president of Greyhound Corp., biggest U.S. bus company. He will succeed Orville Swan Caesar, president since 1946, who will move up to board chairman. Genet, whom Caesar hails as a "wizard in the field of traffic promotion," was born in Manhattan, became controller of New York's Central Coal Co. Inc. at the age of 30. He began his railroading career in 1943 as an officer of National Carloading Corp., became its president (at 35) a year later. In 1946 he became assistant vice president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...