People, Jul. 5, 1971

Featuring THE BEAUTIFUL BURTONS in their DEATH-DARING DEFIANCE of the FLASHING KNIVES! First Time Under the Big Top! The way Elizabeth and Richard Burton were telling it in London last week, they dropped in one night recently at a little local circus near their Mexican vacation house in Puerto Vallarta. Suddenly one of the performers was saying things in Spanish and smiling at Elizabeth, so she stepped graciously into the ring, thinking she was going to be introduced. "The next thing I knew, he was throwing daggers at her," said Richard. "What we didn't know," said Elizabeth, "was that the knife thrower was saying: Is anyone brave enough to take a chance with my daggers?' Those knives really thumped around. Richard suddenly jumped over the barrier into the ring. I shouted to him to stop. I don't know what he thought he could do." What he could do was get into the act —with a balloon in his mouth and another in his hand for the man to burst. "That knife thrower must have got a lot of publicity," said Richard. He wasn't the only one.

Chicago-born Main Rousseau Bocher retired last week at 80, and the world of fashion lost its Grand Old Man —Mainbocher. The first and only American to make it to the top in Paris haute couture, Main, as he was called by the likes of the Duchess of Windsor, moved to Manhattan in 1940, where he became famous for the superelegant simplicity of his very expensive clothes. "I don't like to see people 'dressed up,' " he says. "I've always made dresses for ladies." The ladies he made them for will always remember the Main,

She is only 15 and has never had a drink. But Yolanda King, daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr., raised a thunder of applause at her debut last week as the dirty-mouthed whore in The Owl and the Pussycat at Atlanta's Alliance Theater. The story line did not seem to bother her mother Coretta. But Grandfather Martin Luther King Sr. and the more conservative members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church were outraged. Yolanda managed to mollify them. "Though I didn't like the language," she said, "I felt that the play had something very important to say: that we can all learn from each other, black or white, rich or poor, saints or sinners—and that we all need each other."

The headline in Tel Aviv proclaimed:

DAUGHTER OF CHARLES CHAPLIN SAYS'.

"MY FATHER is JEWISH." On set at the Red Sea port of Eilat, where she has just completed a film called Carlos, Movie Star Geraldine Chaplin fudged it a bit. "My father never admitted it, but then he never denied it," she said. "I don't think he really knows what he is."