The men have all the good roles in Hollywood these days, which may explain why so many actresses have packed off to Leningrad for a part in The Blue Bird, a film based on Maurice Maeterlinck's allegorical fairy tale. Jane Fonda seized the occasion to make political statements to reporters. ("... It's not in the Soviet Union where civil liberties are most infringed, but in South Viet Nam.") In the movie Fonda is cast as Night, Ava Gardner as Luxury, Cicely Tyson as Cat, while Elizabeth Taylor plays Light, Witch, Mother and Maternal Love. Director George Cukor's difficulties in communicating with Soviet artists and cameramen has threatened the film's projected summer completion. "I'm sending for my children to be with me for Easter," Mother Taylor told Fonda. "And Christmas."

qed

"We wait in line like everybody else, and we get rained on like everybody else," explained Cuban-born Jorge Guillermo, the assistant director of a day-care center in Manhattan. Still, when Guillermo, 29, and his fiancee, 28, a French and music teacher in New York City, travel to The Hague to be married this summer, the ceremonies will be more than a city hall affair. The bride: Princess Christina, youngest daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. Christina, partially blind since birth, and her husband will begin married life in New York with a royal blessing. "We are sure this will be a very happy marriage," says Queen Juliana, an opinion Bernhard says he underwrites "1000%."

qed

"He was a real gentleman, just as congenial as he could be," reported California highway patrol Captain Otie Hunter, after Henry Ford II, 57, had been arrested for driving left of center on a street near Santa Barbara, Calif. By Ford's side was pretty, red-haired Kathleen DuRoss, 35, a sometime model for the Ford Motor Co. (Ford's wife Cristina was off in Katmandu at the coronation of the King of Nepal.) When Ford flunked a roadside sobriety test (he was asked to recite the alphabet), he was handcuffed and taken to Santa Barbara Hospital for a blood test, then to the county jail, where he was booked for drunken driving. After four hours in a holding cell, he posted his own $375 bail and returned to Detroit. So did DuRoss, a Grosse Pointe mother of two whose musician husband was killed in an auto accident 16 years ago. DuRoss has been seen in public a few times with the same former Italian consul who occasionally squired Cristina around when Henry was out of town. Ford's only comment about the incident: "Never complain, never explain."

qed

"Have you hugged your kid today?" asks one of the new columns in some 20 South Carolina newspapers. The columnist is Nancy Thurmond, 28, Miss South Carolina of 1966, and the wife of Senator Strom Thurmond, 72. Though she admits that she is a newcomer to child rearing (her own kids are only 11 months, 2 and 3), Nancy has completed three installments of her feature titled "Mother's Medicine," and hopes that her advice will "make the day go better" for some of her husband's constituents.

qed

He flew it only once, for about 60 seconds back in 1947. After that, the giant Spruce Goose flying boat, designed by Industrialist Howard Hughes, never again took to the air. The eight-engine wooden plane, built by the Hughes Tool Co. and a Government defense agency, was obsolescent even before its one brief hop. Last week the General Services Administration announced that the bird, which has been stored in Long Beach, Calif., will be carved up and its pieces displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and other institutions.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.