Lesley Ann Warren ages 38 years in six hours in the upcoming NBC-TV epic Beulah Land, about ante-and post-bellum days on a Savannah, Ga., plantation. For good ole boys, the best scenes are ante. Prewar Warren is a demure but determined plantation mistress arching through Georgia with much of her Mason-Dixon lines swelling out of Deep South decolletage. Beulah Land was actually filmed in Natchez, Miss., where plantations have been preserved and the Southern accent is so pervasive that the Manhattan-raised actress found it easier to slip into y'alls than into cum bersome ball gowns and pantalettes. Says she: "The sound was all around me. It's difficult to drop after working a twelve-hour day."

Sergeant Bambi Lin Finney, 22, is the first Marine ever drummed from the corps for being out of uniform. The reason was that Bambi was way out: she wasn't even wearing her dog tags when she turned up in the latest Playboy as the ranking person in an all-service picture spread on women of the armed forces. Marine brass took one look at Bambi's exposed position and decided she had been sensually infidelis; after four years and five months in the service, the Teletype technician was given an "administrative discharge" even though her enlistment had nine more months to run. Would the Marines be just as tough in the case of a male who appeared in, say, a Playgirl centerfold? Yessir, said a corps spokesman, "We're not sexist."

Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 57, has a palace in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, a residence in Peking and now honorary citizenship in the Maryland town of New Carrollton (pop. 14,000). It was conferred during Sihanouk's visit to greet Cambodian refugees living there and pray with them in a service presided over by saffron-robed monks who later feted their former ruler with cakes and tea. The Prince, who is in the U.S. to generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway land. His estimate: "We are grateful to the U.S., but those who are displaced more than anything would like to be able to return to their homeland."

At Tokyo's coed Gakushu-in University, he enjoys belting sake and bellowing folk songs with classmates. But Japan's handsome Prince Hiro also respects tradition. So last week, having just turned 20, he participated in an exotic 8th century coming-of-age ceremony called kakan no gi (hat rites). Hiro, wearing a magnificent yellow robe, allowed chamberlains to replace the simple silk hat that once marked a minor with the ornate embi no ei (swallowtail ribbons) that symbolized manhood in ancient Japan. The presence of Grandfather Emperor Hirohito, 78, at the ceremony was especially auspicious. No other Japanese monarch has ever lived long enough to see a grandson switch hats.

On the Record

Alec McCowen, British actor, on how he settled on the subject of his prizewinning one-man stage presentation, The Gospel According to St. Mark: "This was the greatest script I had ever found."

Richard Thornburgh, Pennsylvania's Governor, savoring a forthcoming trip to China: "I'm going to put aside my budget problems and Three Mile Island."

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