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As soon as he got his driver's license, Britain's Prince Charles, 18, picked up a sedan from the royal carpool, and set off for a night on the town. Beside him in the front seat of the Rover when he pulled up to London's Vaudeville Theatre was a tall, smashing blonde; so naturally next day all of Fleet Street was front-paging hot items about "the mystery girl" and gasping that for the first time ever Charlie had a girl friend. Actually the mystery girl was just a friend of the family, Angela Rau, 27, an Australian who was in fact being escorted by Anthony Tryon, 26, son of Lord Tryon, keeper of the privy purse. The Prince was still squiring his sister Princess Anne.
Boarding the plane at Burlington, Vt., Mrs. Marlene Chasnov, 23, had an uneasy feeling that her 19-month-old son Craig was ill. And as the plane approached New York, the child began to have convulsions. "I stood up and screamed for someone to help me," she said. "There was only one passenger who didn't look at us as if we had leprosy. He got up and put his thumb in Craig's mouth to keep him from swallowing his tongue. Craig bit him and took a hunk out of his thumb and the man said, 'Your baby has strong teeth. He just bit me.'" Craig recovered from the convulsions brought on by a fever, but it was several days before Mrs. Chasnov found out who the good Samaritan was. An aide casually telephoned from New York's City Hall to say that Mayor John Lindsay was interested in knowing how the lad was getting along.
Harpo and Chico have passed away, and Gummo stayed home in California. But the whole wonderful family was there on film as Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art unreeled a three-week retrospective devoted to the Marx Brothers' comedies. Groucho, 71, now a distinguished man of letters with the publication this month of his correspondence, still looked very much like Hugo Z. Hackenbush or Wolf J. Flywheel when he dropped by for a night in the theater with his wife Eden, his brother Zeppo, 66, and Mrs. Zeppo, Barbara Marx. After watching himself lope through A Day at the Races and A Night at the Opera, Groucho fired up a stogie and remarked: "I didn't realize I was so talented and agile then."
She has always been a complicated mixture of arrogance and defensiveness. Now, Diva Maria Callas, 43, and her good friend, Greek Shipping Millionaire Aristotle Onassis, were embroiled in a London lawsuit against Greek Shipowner Panaghis Vergottis over just how many shares each owned in a $3.3 million tanker called Artemision II. Maria told the court she thought Vergottis was double-dealing her out of a $168,000 interest in the tub. It was a curious thing for him to do, too, she added characteristically, because "Mr. Vergottis respected me and loved me. There are quite a few people who do that once they know me."