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Married. Renée ("Zizi") Jeanmaire, 30, tiny, cat-quick ballerina and musi-comedy star (The Girl in Pink Tights); and Roland Petit, 30, founder and director of France's famed Ballets de Paris, in which Jeanmaire first starred; in Saint-Cyr-la-Rivière, France...
...cops were impeccably clad as 18th century plainclothesmen, but not all the guests were so socially correct. Washington Socialite Gwendolyn Cafritz burst in, looking very modern, with an apology: "I had Schiaparelli whip this up only yesterday; I had simply no time to find anything 18th century," Screen Star "Zizi" Jeanmaire (Hans Christian Andersen) turned up in a few strategically placed sequins, riding what might or might not have been an 18th century camel. Another girl came as a white rabbit, with neither explanation nor apology. Host Cuevas himself received his guests as a timeless "God of Nature" in cloth...
...eldest daughter, Olga, his reply was that he liked the Czar's second daughter, Tatiana, better. Cracked Nicholas Romanov, as he called off the match: "Rumania, bah! It is neither a state nor a nation, but a profession." Four years later, Carol eloped with a commoner named Zizi Lambrino. The queen was furious. The Rumanian High Court declared the marriage null & void, but Carol lived with Zizi until his money ran out; when a son was born and the registrar refused to enter the prince's name as father, Carol wrote a letter to Zizi acknowledging his parenthood...
...some melodies" in his head, but he could neither read nor write music; so he bought a recording machine and sang his songs into it. Musical friends helped put his songs on paper, added full lyrics. Eager little "Zizi" Jeanmaire ("Sure I can sing") looked them over, sang her song into the recording machine. Says Petit: "She sounded awful." She went to work with a pianist, and Petit began planning the choreography. Last week, back on Broadway for another season, Petit sidetracked Carmen to put on the result: La Croqueuse de Diamants (The Diamond Cruncher). Right...
...months ago, Bobo went to Palm Beach to visit Polo Player Winston Guest and his blonde wife "Zizi." A fortnight ago, Rockefeller boarded an Eastern Airlines plane for Miami. He narrowly escaped being killed when one of the plane's engines exploded (TIME, Feb. 16). When he joined Bobo, they decided to get married as soon as possible. The decision set off a series of magnificent improvisations...