Article: Russian Ball brings in new year with look for new guiding hand.(Metropolitan Times)(Party Lines)

After 29 years at the helm of the Russian New Year's Eve Ball, Princess Alexis (Selene) Obolensky is looking for someone else to take over.

But whom?

"I'm hoping someone will offer," she said with a chuckle Saturday night at this year's event, held, as always, at the Mayflower Hotel. I took over nearly 30 years ago from people I thought were old ladies, but now I see they were my age."

It shouldn't be too hard a sell. First, the ball has grown hugely since Princess Obolensky organized it for a crowd of only 60 people to raise money for needy Russian emigres. In the years since then, the urgency of the cause has waned because only a few of ...

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