Word: adriana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became Catherine in A Farewell to Arms; a hard-drinking English aristocrat, Lady Duff Twysden, turned up as Lady Brett in The Sun Also Rises; the aging colonel's lissome contessa in Across the River and Into the Trees is a highly romanticized version of 19-year-old Adriana Ivancich, an Italian beauty whom the Hemingways knew in Venice...
Rowan, who was divorced in 1959, lives sedately with his second wife, Adriana, 26, a former model, in a spacious three-bedroom apartment overlooking the harbor of Manna Del Rey. The garage below houses four cars (a Mercedes-Benz roadster and sedan, an Austin-Healey and a Corvette). Berthed at the dock out back is a 35-ft. ketch, Aisling (Gaelic for dream spirit), on which the Rowans spend most weekends. "These signs of success," Rowan says, "are nice things, appreciated and prized. But you know, more important and more rewarding than any of these things is doing your...
...used in the music world as well. Conductor Herbert von Karajan saved rehearsal time for last year's Salzburg Festival production of Die Walküre by having the singers study cassettes made from his earlier recording of the opera. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik taped a recording of Adriana Lecouvreur on her cassette and is now using it to learn the role she will sing next season...
Author Ernest Hemingway used to pour himself into his letters-and never with less inhibition than when writing to a young Italian woman named Adriana Ivancich in the early 1950s. "Miss Mary always regarded how I felt about you as a cosa sagrada [sacred thing]," the novelist wrote. "It was something that struck me like lightning." Now the London auction house of Christie's has announced that it will sell 65 of Papa's letters to Adriana, a Milanese countess and the self-proclaimed heroine of Across the River and Into the Trees. Miss Mary, clinging...
Norma Levin proves herself a fine straight actress as Adriana. But with her two numbers--"Falling in Love With Love" and "Sing For Your Supper"--she seems a little uneasy. It also falls to her lot to sing some of "The Shortest Day of the Year," a song which demonstrates Lorenz Hart at his least inspired. Carol Schectman is a singer first and foremost, and even a little below her range, as in "This Can't Be Love," she works with abundant wonders...