Monday, Oct. 20, 1975
Married. Linda Black, 27, daughter of Shirley Temple Black, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana; and Roberto Falaschi, 33, first secretary of the Italian embassy in Ghana and son of Italy's Ambassador to Uganda; in Woodside, Calif.
Died. Walter Felsenstein, 74, director of East Berlin's Komische Oper since 1947; of cancer; in East Berlin. One of the century's most influential operatic impresarios, Vienna-born Felsenstein was a demanding perfectionist who sometimes rehearsed for 36-hour stretches. Once, when a reluctant chorus member declined to jump from a 7-ft.-high perch, Felsenstein made the leap, broke his arm and returned 45 minutes later waving his cast and demanding "Now will you jump?" Felsenstein retained his Austrian citizenship and commuted daily from his home in West Berlin to the East, where he turned the Komische Oper into the Communist regime's leading cultural ornament.
Died. Herbert W. Christen berry, 77, U.S. district judge in New Orleans; of an apparent heart attack; in Kentwood, La. Christenberry, who had been U.S. Attorney in his native New Orleans for five years, was appointed to the bench in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman. In the years since then, he made a number of pioneering rulings in civil rights cases, including a 1966 order forcing school integration in Plaquemines Parish, La., one of the longest Deep South holdouts against federal desegregation laws.
Died. May Sutton Bundy, 88, early U.S. tennis star who won the singles tournament at Wimbledon in 1905 and again in 1907, becoming the first of 14 American women to capture the venerable English championship; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Julia Grant Cantacuzene, 99, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant; in Washington, B.C. The daughter of Grant's oldest son, Major General Frederick D. Grant, Julia was a lively brunette beauty of 22 when she met a dashing Russian prince, Michael Cantacuzene, during a holiday in Rome in 1899. They were married that fall and set up housekeeping on his 80,000-acre estate in the Ukraine, but the idyl ended suddenly in 1917 when the Bolshevik revolution forced them to flee to the U.S.--she with her jewels, including the ring of an Empress of Byzantium, and five oil paintings concealed in her skirts. Back in her native Washington, the princess eventually divorced the prince, who died in 1955, and lived out her years as an outspoken champion of the G.O.P. and one of the capital's more spirited hostesses.
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