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...younger daughter of the former Vice President, stepped forward into the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to make the first curtsy at this season's International Debutante Ball. Her sister Patricia had preceded her by two years as the U.S. representative at the gala, which presented 56 debs from twelve nations. Julie, a Smith College freshman, may have one-upped her sister in the escort department. At her side stood David Eisenhower, 18, Ike's only grandson, now a freshman at Amherst...
Goat Island is a sleeper: a little-publicized, ill housed, low-budget stroke of near genius. There were only a couple of dozen people at Thursday night's opening, maybe because it had the misfortune to coincide with gala premieres at Adams House and the Loeb. But like the sage said: "What's box office...
...nervous host. He recited to his Cabinet the list of official visitors. He lined the Champs Elysées with hundreds of the visitors' flags, authorized an unprecedented 101-gun salute and ordered up a 70-car motorcade and a 50-man motorcycle escort. He called for a gala performance by the Paris Opéra ballet company, even summoned Opéra Director Georges Auric to ask him to "do it right for us, because they always do it so well themselves...
...deeply embedded vein of indifference. The first hint came when he announced auditions for the chorus of the new Dallas Civic Opera; instead of the expected stampede, only 32 singers showed up, and most of them were shower-room Carusos. The real blow, though, was his fund-raising gala, featuring Maria Callas. It sold only 30% of the 4,100 seats in the State Fair Music Hall. On the following night, the company opened with an excellent performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri-and got much the same box office results. Kelly was dumfounded. "The response...
...paper also threw a charity gala at the Paris Opera that glittered with the helmets of the Gardes Republicaines, and the dancing of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. It was all quite in character for a paper that once moved Charles de Gaulle to jest: "Each morning when its readers pick it up, they murmur: 'St. Figaro, reassure us.' " Pride in Speculation. Over the years, the paper has proved consistently reas suring to its affluent, conservative readership. Figaro prides itself on being no ordinary paper that merely dispenses the news. It has always had literary ambitions, and part...