European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 a a a the stars and stripes monday april 23,1990 faces a no place Monaco s Princess Stephanie becomes in gored from wire reports Princess Stephanie of Monaco and French property magnate Jean Yves be fur announced their engagement saturday night to friends and relatives at a private party in a Paris restaurant the restaurant owner said. Among the 50 or so guests were Stephanie solder siblings Princess Caroline and Prince Albert. Albert is heir to the principality a throne. After be fur gave Stephanie the engagement ring they toasted their coming nuptials with Champagne said Bernard Marck owner of the chicle Telegraph restaurant. The Palace issued no official statement on the engagement. But after persistent demands by journalists press officials at the Palace confirmed a report about the engagement published saturday in the French newspaper Nice Matin. Sources close to the Palace had said the engagement would be made known to family and friends at the party and an official announcement would be made in the principality next week. About 25 police officers manned the streets around be Telegraph As a Parade of cars let off the part goers. Be fur and Stephanie entered the restaurant without speaking to reporters. Monaco a ruler Prince Rainier Iii had been expected to attend but was not seen by photographers. Stephanie 25, has appeared in Public several times this year with be fur 26. They have been seen together at the festival of magic in Monte Carlo and at boxing and soccer matches. The youngest of three children bom to Rainier and film Star Grace Kelly Stephanie has Cut a hit record made a movie and marketed a perfume named after her. Be fur operates a real estate firm in  is a Tough life actress Colleen Dewhurst Friday gave a group of Kansas City mo., High school students a candid and sobering description of acting calling it a a profession of  a you Are told constantly you Are wrong for it a said Dewhurst known Best for her portrayals of the passionate women in Eugene of Neillis plays. Dewhurst recalled for the 20 drama students her own Days As a struggling student 44 years ago at new Yorkus american Academy of dramatic arts. A it was More agony to get up in front of my Peers than to audition in front of strangers a she said. A the greatest destroyer i saw at school was the bitterness a Dewhurst cautioned the students of the struggle to Princess Stephanie of Monaco with her Fiance Jean Yves be fur. A get work. Her break finally came when she was cast As Kate in Joseph pappus Shakespeare festival production of a the taming of the  a that was 14 years after id come to the City a she said. A a it a not easy but its Worth  Price for tribal Art a 19th Century african sculpture of a Bangka Queen fetched $3.41 million on saturday a record for a piece of tribal Art sold at auction soothe by a announced. The 32.5-Inch wooden figure of a regal standing woman was bought by an Anonymous private collector said Laura Stewart a spokeswoman for the auction House in new York. The a a Bangka memorial figure of a Royal titled wife was sold at an auction of the african Art collection of Harry a. Franklin a los Angeles dealer. A German explorer Gustav Conran acquired the carving Between 1897 and 1898 while travelling in one of the Bangka kingdoms in what is now Cameroon in West Africa. The figure represents a woman As priestess of the Earth and Mother of twins. She is shown dancing and singing the song of the Earth As she would at the funeral Celebration for a deceased King. The Bangka Queen was a highlight of the first show of african Art at the museum of Modem Art in 1935. Surrealist artist Man Ray photographed it with a nude Model in the 1930s. Franklin bought the arresting carving for $29,000 in 1966 at the landmark Sale of the Helena Rubinstein collection of african tribal Art. The previous auction record for a piece of tribal Art was $2 million for a Benin Bronze head that was sold last year at Christie a in  fishing business the proprietor of Aarons bait and tackle m Purdy wash., has his window display set for the opening of the Trout season and he figures he has the Competition beat this time. Aaron Weinberg is a Veteran in business after All a even though he a Only 10. He set up shop last fall with a Small assortment of fishing gear at Northwest Auto clinic operated by his Stepfather Pat Osmon. A i was open but not stable a Aaron recalled. A then nobody came in because they did no to know i was  this time he has a Pink wooden fish twice As big As he is outside the shop and Osmon has invested $3,500 in Stock. Aaron said half the proceeds would go Back into the business a Quarter into his pocket and a Quarter into his College savings fund. He said he checked a local sporting goods store and a pharmacy that Sells fishing tackle and found his own prices were lower. In addition he said he can Ofier advice on gear and lakes in the area. The states Lowland lakes fishing season opened sunday. Howard Weinberg the boys father said he began taking his son fishing More than six years ago. Last year the youngster landed a 20-Pound Salmon on 10-Pound test line. A whenever we go fishing he always catches More a Weinberg said. A the thinks like a fish. He knows where they re going to  Rigby injured gymnast actress Cathy Rigby was injured when struck in the head by a sword during a performance of a Peter pan in Kansas City to. It took 10 stitches to close the wound the former olympic gymnast suffered during a flying be Quence in the third act of the play Friday night at the Midland theater. A a that a Why i guess you done to play with knives a Rigby said in an interview saturday before she appeared in a matinee. Rigby Rigby was suspended in the air to simulate flying during a fight with Captain Hook when her sword hit the set and stick her in the head near the Temple said Tom Mccoy her husband and producer. Rigby bled profusely from the wound Mccoy said. Her head was bandaged and she returned within a minute for the final act he said. A a in a sure the audience thought it was very realistic a Rigby said. As the blood flowed Rigby said she thought a How do we fake this one its not like losing a  two other characters Cindy Robinson As Wendy and Holly Erwin As Tiger Lily finished Peter pants song while Rigby a wound was quickly dressed offstage. A it was like the Mike Tyson fight a Mccoy said. A we were trying to get our Peter pan patched up for round 15. There was blood  a the audience definitely knew Peter had been in a Tough fight with Captain Hook a Mccoy said. After the show Rigby was treated at the emergency room of St. Luke a Hospital and released. Dear Abby last May our 22-year-old son Michael was involved in a motorcycle Accident. He was pronounced brain dead three Days later. Because of an article he had read in your column he carried an Organ donor card in his Wallet. The lord took our precious son 10 Days later but we were comforted knowing that Michael gave two Blind people the gift of sight and a Young father who had been on a kidney machine for three years is now living a Normal life. Abby please let your readers know How to will their organs after death. Dear father Michael a father my heart goes out to you and your family on the loss of your beloved son. Because this is National Organ tissue donor awareness week May i again offer this Beautiful essay written by Robert n. Test dear Abby to remember me at a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that for All intents and purposes my life has stopped. When that happens do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And done to Call this my  Call it my a bed of life a and let my body be taken from it to help others Lead Fuller lives. Give my sight to a Man who has never seen a Sunrise a baby a face or love in the eyes of a woman. Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless Days of pain. Give my blood to the teen Ager who has been pulled from the wreckage of his car so that he might live to see his grandchildren play. Give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week. Take my Bones every muscle every fiber and nerve in my body and find a Way to make a crippled child walk. Explore every Corner of my brain. Take my cells if necessary and let them grow so that someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a Bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her windows. Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the Flowers grow. If you must Bury something let it be my faults my weaknesses and All prejudice against my Fellowman. Give my soul to god. If by Chance you wish to remember me do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you do All i have asked i will live forever. Readers donor forms Are available by writing to the living Bank . Box 6725, Houston Texas 77265.1 have carried a donor card for 20 years and feel there is nothing i can leave after my death that will be of greater value. This is strictly a non profit organization operating on a shoestring As a Public service so please be a sport and Send a Dollar or two along with your request. Its tax deductible. C Universal press Syndicate