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...prospered as a House of Rothschild protege left an estate that included three houses and a famed art collection. After the bulk of his gallery was auctioned off for $2,200,000, Lurcy's trustees were able to provide a $150,000 annual income for his childless widow, Alice Snow Barbee Lurcy, a former Paris nightclub chorine once described by an art critic friend as "staggeringly beautiful, something between Rubens and Renoir." But last week, after the trust managers had sold her five-story, Fifth Avenue Manhattan town house, the 52-year-old ex-showgirl refused to budge, complained...
...year-old Chinese woman wrote that she had been a "walking zombie" since the death of her mother; her published letter produced a flood of sympathy, including an answer from an elderly haole (Caucasian) woman who had lost her husband. The bereaved young matron and the bereaved widow are now fast friends...
...totems of past status. The sleepy Long Island port of New Baytown in which he lives was once virtually the fief of his whaling-captain forebears. He carries one such captain's narwhal stick and lives in his great-grandfather's white shiplap house with its widow's walk. It hurts Ethan when his son pipes up: "I'm going to buy you an automobile so you won't feel so lousy when other people...
...Carousel Theater in Framingham (TR 2-3577 or CE 5-9180) presents Shelley Berman in Where's Charley playing June 26 through July 1. Opening July 3 (through July 8) will be The Merry Widow, with Katherine Grayson. Also on the summer program are Kismet,with Howard Keel (July 10-15); Okla-homal, with John Raitt (July 17-22); The King and I, with Giesele Mac-Kenzie (July 24-29); and a review with Danny Kaye (July 31-August...
Also, Paint Your Wagon (July 31); Guys and Dolls (August 7); the Merry Widow (August 14); The Most Happy Fella (August 21); and Finian's Rainbow (august 28), with Juluis LaRosa. The latter closes September...