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Divorced. By John Francis Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds, 47, Britain's eleventh ranking duke: Irma Amelia Howard, 39, ex-ballet dancer; after 15 years of marriage, no children; in London. In 1947 the Duchess got a U.S. divorce, which Britain did not recognize, next day married her third husband, Manhattan Oil Consultant Frank Atherton Howard...
...Amelia Goes to the Ball, which was no crashing success when produced at the Metropolitan Opera ten years ago, is a rambunctious drawing-room farce about a woman who is so anxious to get to a ball that she cracks her husband over the head with a vase, has her lover arrested, and finally sweeps off with the chief of police. Beside The Old Maid and the Thief, the other half of the evening's bill, it seemed pretty thin...
Backstage, 29-year-old Yugoslav Soprano Daniza Ilitsch, late of a Nazi concentration camp, nervously awaited the call for her first Met performance as Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. In the pit, a new Italian conductor, Giuseppe Antonicelli, was making his Met debut...
Contemporary composers rarely crash the culture-pearly gates of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Italian-born Gian-Carlo Menotti has done it twice in the past ten years. It has been an honor unaccompanied by noises of a cash register. Menotti's 1937 Amelia Goes to the Ball and his 1942 The Island God together got only nine Met performances (he was paid about $150 a time). In 1939 he wrote a modest little chamber opera for the radio, The Old Maid and the Thief, which has since been given 100 times and earned far more than his grand operas...
With Fellow Composer Samuel Barber, Poet Robert Horan and a cocker spaniel, he lives in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. He is still an Italian citizen, but except for Amelia Goes to the Ball, his work is almost unknown in his native Italy. When the war came Mussolini's censors put Menotti on the forbidden list. Anyway, opera like The Telephone wouldn't be grand enough. Says Menotti: "In Italy they hate chamber opera. They like to have about 500 people in the cast...