Word: swashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lions. The catch at Fairbanks' coming-out party for his 17-year-old daughter Daphne: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Margaret with a new and eminently eligible beau, 23-year-old Lord Patrick Beresford, her escort at the Ascot races. Handsome Doug, whose swash shows no signs of buckling at 47, got the first dance with the Queen, also got a precedent-breaking (because Fairbanks and his wife are divorced) invitation to tea at Ascot on the sacrosanct sod of the Queen's Lawn...
...City Center is in effect a José Ferrer festival. Ferrer will star in all four bills-Cyrano, The Shrike, Richard III, Charley's Aunt. Opening with Cyrano, he retained all his old verve in the part; the play, too, holds up fairly well, though the swash buckles here & there...