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...ballroom of the towering Sheraton-Oak Brook Hotel. Looking on genially, Principal William Scheid says, "This is the night they pull out all the stops." Senior Donald McNeff does just that as he arrives with his date in a chauffeur-driven limousine. He is wearing a white tux and top hat, and he is carrying a cane. Delighted by creating a momentary sensation, he explains: "I wanted to have some fun for once. Everywhere we stopped, people freaked out." McNeff has arranged to keep the limousine, at a cost of $25 an hour, to carry him and his friends...
...turnabout for Frost came during an agreed-upon seven-day Easter break in the interviewing. It was then that his staff was close to panic. Frost later conceded that he was "genuinely daunted before Easter" by Nixon. Frost had been partying as usual, leaving one taping to don a tux and emcee the Hollywood premiere of a movie he had helped produce. But then came the baiting challenge from Birt before the birthday party and a telling jest in one of the songs sung that night in Frost's honor. To the tune of Love and Marriage, it went: "Frost...
...adopted classic architecture and Louis XVI furniture. He eschewed the pomp of Kings, but he enjoyed regal dinners, which Carter does not. History suggests no correlation between the adoption of presidential tradition and success. Abraham Lincoln wore a stovepipe hat and saved the nation. Herbert Hoover often wore his tux to dinner-and nearly lost the country...
...pieces to the idiom of the theater. "Half-Drawn" begins with four near-nude women in a room. Three don party shoes and climb under a big quilt; the fourth dresses herself in a long black sheath and black gloves, then opens the door for a man in a tux. No more said...
Marlene Dietrich rejuvenated? No, the net stockings and tux belong to Swiss-born Actress Marthe Keller, 29, whose comedy role in Le Guêpier (The Hornet's Nest) casts her as an entertainer who has Dietrich's looks but none of her talent. With almost a dozen European films to her credit, Keller has now begun her first American movie, Marathon Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. How do her new co-stars compare with the likes of Italy's Marcello Mastroianni and France's Yves Montand"? "It's a question of geography...