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...servants and bodyguards on the second floor of Cannes' Carlton Hotel proclaimed the fact that His Majesty was awake. Shortly afterwards, a fat man with a prematurely balding head and a rakish hussar's mustache, appeared on the hotel terrace, plumped his 225 pounds into a wicker chair and ordered a Coca-Cola. He wore the standard summer garb of the well-dressed Riviera yachtsman-grey flannel slacks, navy blue jacket and white yachting cap. The plump, darkly pretty young woman who accompanied him wore a similar costume. For 15 minutes, His Majesty sat in massive silence...
...many, the 7 5-year-old festival is like old times: the same uncomfortable wicker seats, the same kind of program, as heavy and nourishing as Sauerbraten. The opener this week was Beethoven's hour-long choral Symphony No. 9,* be followed by Parsifal, Die Meistersinger and the four operas of the Ring cycle...
...carefully into the dusty automotive ruin-climbing over the front seat because the rear doors were stuck-and rattled off to a Quonset hut which a Pan American foreman had surrendered for the occasion. The general sat down on a rattan settee, the President on a wicker chair. The door closed. It stayed closed for one hour. Nobody heard what was said...
...Manhattan, Ireene Wicker, radio's veteran "Singing Lady," lamented that she had lost her sponsor after her name appeared in Red Channels. Her ex-sponsor, the Kellogg Co., replied stiffly that "it was merely a matter of business...
Singing Lady (Sun. 6 p.m., ABC-TV). Ireene Wicker celebrates her 20th year...