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...every royal and near-royal engagement book in Europe is Sept. 18, date of the 21-cannon wedding that will reunite the ruling families of Greece and Denmark. In a Greek Or thodox ceremony in Athens, King Constantine of the Hellenes, 24, will take as his Queen Anne-Marie Dagmar Ingrid. Prettiest, youngest and liveliest of three royal sisters, leggy (5 ft. 8 in.), slim (120 Ibs., 22-in. waist) Anne-Marie will also be the first at the altar-as well as the first Danish princess to marry a reigning monarch since 1680, when Sweden's King Karl...
Help from Hamburger. Modeling is one field in which German girls are increasingly sought after both at home and abroad. Bavaria's Ina Balke and Rhinelander Dagmar Dreger are among Manhattan's highest-paid models. German mannequins are in equally great demand in Paris; most of them came to France originally as domestic servants, although one of the most noted, Brigitte Laaf, is the daughter of a wealthy Cologne businessman...
...instructions. He does not speak. He is never described. He is an unmoved viewer of objective scenes into whose visions only the barest and rarest hints of emotion are allowed to creep-resignation at being yoked to Marianne, his mercilessly neurotic French wife; pain at the loss of Dagmar, his blonde German mistress...
...gimcrackery. This is in large part due to Saporta's skill at clicking off brisk, precise, sensuous sentences with the cool ease of a man spinning coins on a marble table. But it owes much to his use of the literary come-on. On one page, for example, Dagmar is seen standing next to a Christmas tree. "Through the tree's branches," writes Saporta, "Dagmar looks like one more fantastic toy . . . She is naked." The page ends there. The reader-at least the male reader-turns expectantly to the next page. No Dagmar. And turn or shuffle...
Debbie's format demands attention; she twists rhythmically, counting one-and, two-and, giving encouragement in a pleasant, somewhat twangy voice. Then she calls for deep breathing. After one or two of the deepest breaths seen on TV since Dagmar left, the camera fades to a commercial...