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...uncle remembered that I could do this, and he put on the record for my father. He said, 'Please, Mirella,' and they discovered I had the voice." Two years later, she won a national competition with her singing of Puccini's Un bel di. One of the judges, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, advised her not to rush her career. Said Gigli: "You are young. Don't force your voice." Wisely, she waited until 1955 to make her formal debut...
...term singing actress was virtually made for her. She opened up the territory of bel canto that was to be explored by Sills and Sutherland. An equal achievement was her interpretation of the war-horses-Lucia, Tosca-so that the weariest ear could hear them as new works of art. Her musical values were the strictest and most scrupulous. She sang with complete fidelity to the composer and his idiom; yet the human essence of each heroine shone through her interpretation. Audiences felt that they were seeing Norma or Violetta. Hers was not a conventionally "beautiful" voice, like that...
They come in campers and station wagons, sports cars and sedans, creeping across the valley behind the slowest trailer. They forsake the beaches of Malibu and Carmel, the glamor of San Francisco and Bel Air. They leave behind the concession stands, theaters, and baseball diamonds and head for the mountains. They seek Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon--for the unmatched, glacier-carved grandeur of John Muir's "Range of Light...
...greatest concentration of beauty east of Hollywood. Its residents, paying as little as $12 a week for their pink-and-green, 9-ft. by 12-ft. cubicles, ran largely to aspiring models and actresses. Many ran far, among them Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford, Gene Tierney, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Bel Geddes, Dorothy McGuire, Liza Minnelli, Ali MacGraw, Candice Bergen, Cloris Leachman. Eileen Ford stabled her young models at the Barbizon. The Katharine Gibbs secretarial school reserved three floors for its students...
...other side of the continent, Ronald Reagan seemed to be savoring his last days of freedom from the worries and responsibilities of the Oval Office. He made headlines only once, outside his Bel Air Presbyterian Church, when he said of the hostage crisis: "I don't think you pay ransom for people that have been kidnaped by barbarians." Otherwise, wearing scuffed boots and faded blue work clothes, he spent the early part of last week at his ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains. Aides said that Reagan devoted most of his time to questions pertaining to the transition. Those...