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Taken chronologically, the drawings could be read as a footnote to the history of the decay of the Safavi dynasty. Riza joined the royal atelier soon after Shah Abbas ascended the throne. His earliest drawings are delicate, strongly traditional, and faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style...
...there is still, always, the reassurance of the last scenes: the hellhound turns and meets his end, the new king comes to the throne intent on the needed repairs "of calling home our exil'd friends abroad, That fled the snares of watchful tyranny," and mending his country.--But this is a good enough production to let the words get beyond it: there's no need to Macbirden it more with any newer meanings...
Married. Princess Anne, 23, only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II of England and fourth in line to the British throne; and Mark Anthony Peter Phillips, 25, commoner captain in the Queen's Dragoon Guards (see THE WORLD...
Among those who were conspicuously not invited to Princess Anne's wedding was the widow of her Great-Uncle David, King Edward VIII. Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, whose husband relinquished the British throne for "the woman I love," lives quietly in an elegant French-owned villa on the fringe of Paris' Bois de Boulogne. Charles J. V. Murphy, a former editor of FORTUNE and LIFE and an old friend of the Windsors', recently visited the duchess. His report...
Inevitably, the strains of that romantic waltz are receding into the corridors of her memory, along with the echoes of those exquisitely heady days at Biarritz and Palm Beach, of yachts and private railroad cars, suites and great houses, and-not the least-of the near accession to a throne...