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...monkey on Hero Barry Nelson's back. He plays a middle-aged research chemist who talks in the tone of small boy pique: "Forty-three years old-and I haven't even got a power mower." In nagging antiphony he and his pouter-pigeon wife, Barbara Bel Geddes, sing the have-not-got-enough blues of a deceptively affluent suburbia...
Along with 54 other hopefuls at the annual Miss World contest in London, Peru's lissome (35-23-35) Madeleine Hartog-Bel managed to stay upright through four preliminary rounds. But she swooned gracefully away when she was named the winner. Smelling salts brought her to for the presentation of a $7,000 check and a ceremonial visit to the Lord Mayor at Guildhall. Next will come a trip home for Christmas to the family cattle ranch in Piura, said Madeleine, who sold her car to get air fare to Paris to begin a career as a model...
Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 opera Norma is one of the Matterhorns of the repertory for sopranos. Many of the world's finest singers have come to grief on its melodic precipices because they lacked the bel canto technique, emotional projection, and soaringly powerful voice that the title role requires. The 19th century Soprano Lilli Lehmann said it was easier to sing three Brünnhildes than one Norma, and the great French Prima Donna Pauline Viardot was so obsessed with the difficulties of the part that the last word she spoke on her deathbed was "Norma." Maria Callas...
Throughout Yugoslavia, factories are bursting into flames at a rate described by Zagreb's weekly Vijesnik u Srijedu as "a fire and a half a day." Asked Bel grade radio last week: "Are we going to see our entire industry disappear in billows of smoke...
...Scala's novelty for this tour was Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, a bel canto relic that the company recently revived after a century of relative neglect. A retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story that owes little to Shakespeare, Capuleti, with Bellini's intimate scale, pervading sweetness and utter predictability, is a distinct contrast to Verdi's powerful, primitive themes and vaulting imagination. But the company -notably the two leads, Tenor Giacomo Aragall and Soprano Renata Scotto-traded the flawed gusto of its Trovatore and Nabucco performances for restraint and quiet artistry, making...