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...began when Vicki Benet, a French-born singer from Los Angeles, began a search for a genuine British lord to be master of ceremonies and do commercials on a series of half-hour TV films called Rendezvous with Vicki. Rendezvous is still merely an idea in the active brain of Vicki's friend and manager, Jack Elliott, ex-songwriter and Hollywood producer of TV commercials. Vicki is a 23-year-old platinum blonde whose generous measurements match Gina Lollobrigida's (36-22-35). By the time Vicki got to London three weeks ago, British nobility was forming...
...Lord-or What? No sooner had Vicki's plane landed than David James Douglas, 37, 7th Baron Nugent of Clonlost, presented himself ("Athletic and amusing," said Vicki). Soon after, over cocktails at a London club, Vicki inspected two more candidates, 41-year-old Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley ("charming") and Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, 52, 6th Marquess of Donegal and governor of Carrick-fergus Castle ("suave"). "I didn't know what to call them-my lord, or what," said Vicki. "They told me the correct way was to say Lord...
John Raymond Godley, 34, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, from Killegar House in Ireland's County Cavan, invited Vicki for a weekend on his estate, met her at the Dublin airport in a grey cutaway coat and topper with a bouquet of roses and shamrocks, and a coach and four. Vicki proceeded to stay the weekend in the 150-year-old mansion, whose highceilinged, chandeliered gloom has never been desecrated by electricity. "Did you do any hunting?" Vicki was asked. "No," she replied, "but I was photographed with a Black Angus calf...
...thing, has created some lively parts and, with the help of his own deft staging, has achieved some entertaining performances. Particular bright spots are Buddy Hackett as a fat racketeer, Dennis King as a spouting and swilling judge, Mary Anderson as a wronged wife out on a bender, and Vicki Cummings as an experienced blonde. And Playwright Kingsley has contrived some funny scenes, including one of a cutie (Sheila Bond) keeping open house while taking a bubble bath...
...poke at Barry Blake, another child actor in the play. Then the grownup actors-who can be just as sensitive in these matters as children-took offense when Jenny started stealing scenes from them, by mugging or winking at the audience. Backstage, Jenny thumbed her nose at Actress Vicki Cummings' maid, and, it was charged, even mother Hecht insulted Hollywood Actor Mark Stevens (playing Jenny's father) by yelling and burping into his face...