Word: consuelo
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...great lessons of fairy tales is to mind what one wishes for: one may get it. In 1895 a schoolgirl named Gladys Deacon read about the marriage of the reluctant Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough and determined that some day she too would marry well...
...many admirers during her 25-year campaign to marry Marlborough when he and Consuelo were divorced. The art critic Bernard Berenson was mesmerized by the teen-age Gladys, and his wife, though jealous, felt the same. "She is radiant and sphinxlike ... Enchanting, but tiring. A wonderful creature, but too much of a born actress to take quite seriously. But so beautiful, so graceful, so changeful in a hundred moods, so brilliant that it is enough to turn anyone's head," she wrote, adding perceptively that "part of her mysteriousness comes from her being, as it were, sexless." There were...
...effect. Since the beginning of last year, there have been 90 kidnapings, with ransoms of $1 million or more being paid on at least two occasions. The flamboyance of the moneyed life-style has all but disappeared. So have a good many of the rich. Said U.S.-born Countess Consuelo Crespi before moving to New York City in 1976: "In Italy now you want to feel rich and look poor." Sales of Rolls-Royces have fallen off to nearly half their level of a year ago. The miles of nightclub neon that used to light up the Roman nights have...
...haven't neglected you dance fans. If you're still around, check out the Expansions Dance Company, which will perform June 2, 3, 9, and 10. Under the direction of Consuelo Baraka, the program will feature dances in the style of blues, folk, jazz, and spiritual modern ballet. At the Agassiz Theatre, 8:00 all four nights; tickets at the door...
...Praise of Music, the Community Service Dept. of New England Conservatory will explore Black music and dance from its African origins to its present American flowering. Consuelo, formerly a dancer with Alvin Ailey, will make a special guest appearance along with percussionist Freddie Hubbard, and Lee Genesis. Genesis plays with Boston's own "Heat". Tickets are $3 and are available at the Jordan Hall Box Office. Funds raised will be used for the Community Service College's Scholarship Fund...