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PERSONALITIES
By Chuck Conconi November 12, 1987

Yesterday's "it-certainly-can't-go-on-much-longer" snowstorm forced First Lady Nancy Reagan to cancel a trip to Carnegie
Hall in New York to attend pianist Vladimir Feltsman's first public concert in this country. Mrs. Reagan had promised the
Soviet e'migre' -- a "refusenik" for eight years before being granted an exit visa to Israel this summer -- that she would
attend last night's debut.

"She's very disappointed," Press Secretary Elaii1e Crispen said of tl1e first lady, "but between Mother Nature a11d doctor's
orders, it's better she stayed at home." Feltsman invited Mrs. Reagan to the concert after performiI1g at the White House
Sept. 27. Ron Reagan was to stand in for his mother at Carnegie Hall, and the first lady has been invited to Feltsman's
concert at the Kennedy Center Nov. 22.

Out and About

Redskins quarterback Jay Schroeder obviously sent in his answer long before leading his team to a come-from-ahead defeat
in Philadelphia last Sunday. The promoters of "Walt Disney's World on Ice," which opened last night at the Convention
Center, sent out questionnaires to a number of Washington celebrities asking which was their favorite of the Seven Dwarfs
and why. Among the responses they received was one from Schroeder, who checked Happy, and explained: "I don't let
anything bother me and I always like to make people smile." Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke wasn't smiling a lot St1nday
when Schroeder completed only 16 of 46 passes. Maybe now we know too why Channel 9's theater/movie critic Davey
Marlin-Jones wears that absurd hat. His favorite dwarf is Dopey, because "I had the same kind of ears that he had when I
grew up." But leave it to comic Mark Russell to put the promotional stunt in perspective. Russell wrote: "Which one of the
seven dwarfs do I most identify with? It's a tossup between Bashftll and Bruce Babbitt" ...

ashing!on real-estate broker Pat Dixson had a tough <lax Saturdax. Her Qhone was ringing constantlx, not with calls from
clients looking for new homes, but from Qeople shocked to learn that she was auditioning for a Playboy magazine P.icture
~pread. Al~tory in this newspaper ran with a photograph of Patricia Dixon -- a blond Fairfax attorney who is also a rel!J.
estate agent -- osin with Pla bo hotogra her David Chan. Washin on's Pat Dixson, also blond, said she ke
reassuring her callers, "1'111 a nice Christian girl from North Carolina. I wouldn't do that" ...