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Died. Mae Murray, 75, blonde queen of Hollywood's Babylonian babyhood, who danced out of the Ziegfeld Follies into an endless string of silent-movie romances, most notably Erich Von Stroheim's 1925 The Merry Widow; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In love with her own publicity, she was a prototype and prisoner of stardom-"the girl with the bee-stung lips," who rode around in a gold-fitted Rolls, with sable rugs and liveried footmen, waltzed through four marriages and squandered $3,000,000 in the space of eight years. "I shall dance...
...Grant-in-Aid show. The current show is as good as any I have seen at Harvard. Color, humor, drama, and sophistication are all combined into exciting jazz dance interpretations of Gershwin's An American in Paris, John Lewis's The Comedy, and Gottschalt's and Key's Woodland Revelry...
...Woodland Revelry, as a closing piece, was a bit of an anti-climax. It lacked the brilliant individual performances of the leads in American in Paris and the general solidness of The Comedy. It was nevertheless a delightfully funny piece. The music is an orchestral arrangement by Kay of Gottschalk's late nineteenth century minstrel songs...
Second row--Curtis A. Hessler '66, of Leverett House and Woodland Hills, Calif., editorial chairman; Ellen Lake '66, of Gilman House and Harrison, N.Y., features editor; William B. Clayton '66, of Leverett House and Fairport, N.Y., associate business manager; Roger W. Sinnott '66, of Adams House and Trenton, N.Y., photographic chairman; and R. Andrew Beyer '66, of Dudley House and Erie, Pa., sports editor...
Copeland's hilltop estate is only one of the largest in the woodland Delaware area known as the "Du Pont Chateau Country," where the family's estates lock one into another to form a magnificent preserve for shooting and fox hunting. Proud of their French Huguenot ancestry, the Du Fonts have given their places such names as Montchanin, Granogue, Chevannes, Nemours, Louviers and Bois des Fosses. The houses contain the big-game trophies bagged by the family on African safaris, the pictures of such Du Pont yachts as the American Eagle (a 1964 America's Cup contender...