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After the announcements, Grace and Rainier attended a gala ball in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, where they sat uncomfortably in a "royal" box and nibbled crystallized violets while the press howled at the door. Grace wore a Dior gown and low heels so that she would not be taller than the 5 ft. 6 in. Prince. Later, at the Harwyn Club, Grace nibbled at Rainier's ear, and danced with him until 4 a.m. This week she was off to Hollywood to make a movie with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, leaving her fiancé to wander around...
...25th anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera debut of durable Soprano Lily Pens, 51, the Met staged a special gala to hail her, programmed a hit parade of Ponsongs from such favorite operas of Lily's as Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor. From high-domed Rudolph Bing, the Met's general manager, Lily got congratulations and a passel of sterling silver mementos. Almost as trim as she was when she first defied the stereotyped bovine heft of oldtime grand divas, tiny (5 ft. ½ in., 109 Ibs.) French-born Singer Pons graciously took her curtain calls, then used...
Lowell House will retaliate in the last week of April with a production of Smetana's "The Bartered Bride," a nineteenth century Czech gala spectacle. Musical director Howard M. Brown describes the opera as a "Bohemian Gilbert and Sullivan" executed in the old European grand manner. Producer John H. Poppy '57 is planning for a cast of 70, supported by 60 student musicians...
Both teams were hampered by the rain, for opposing coaches Bob Blackman of Dartmouth and Alva Kelley of Brown are stressing aerial games this year. The ball was as elusive for the backs as the cocktail shakers and beer cans seemed adhesive to the grasps of the gala throng. The backwoodsmen were in town again...
...begins, Papa Saint-Forget, wanting a daughter, has become the unhappy parent of the five boys. In an effort to revive the prosperity that was Trezignan's when the quints were babies and the glory of all France, a committee decides to round up the brothers for a gala celebration of their 40th birthday...