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...looks just before he died, Thornton Hunt gave this testimony: "The outline of the features and face possesses firmness and hardness entirely inconsistent with a feminine character. . . ." Biographer Blunden finds it regrettable that no portrait of Shelley except the very young and rather girlish one by Amelia Curran has survived. To Blunden, Shelley exemplifies "the supreme capacity called genius...
...tending his magnificent flower garden at Santa Comba. It was there, and through the medium of the flowers he loves, that he met the woman who has in the last few months made an extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over the flower arrangement for the party, Salazar was so impressed...
...Amelia Goes to the Ball (1938) and The Island God (1942) got fair to middling notices, but they did not stay long in the Met's repertory.* Says Menotti: "Opera should be taken out of the museum. The trouble with opera isn't that it isn't what it used to be, but that...
...Amelia Earhart...
Enclosed find a photograph which was removed from a slain Jap on Okinawa. The lady in slacks appears to be Amelia Earhart...