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...heeded the advice of her Australian pianist husband, Richard Bonynge, began concentrating on coloratura parts and on the little-performed 18th century Italian bel canto repertory. Now, on the living-room wall of her Kensington home, Soprano Sutherland has a picture of one of her idols: Singer Elizabeth Weichsel Billington, reputedly the mistress of George IV, who almost singlehanded brought bel canto opera to popularity in England in the early 18th century. Joan Sutherland sees no reason why she cannot perform the same service in the 20th century. "I will be happy," says she, "if I can just sing...
...Louse. Obermaier's column has become required reading on casting couches from Berlin to Bel Air. As he travels to the world's watering holes frequented by celebrities, he keeps forked tongue in cheek. In St. Anton, Austria, a ski resort, he wrote of the Shah of Iran's exwife: "On the slopes, Soraya still behaved like a queen, was especially careful not to let any spill mar her majesty. She also refused to queue up at the snack bar. But she had to turn democratic afterward. There was no way of beating the queue in front...
Argentina has the stiffest import duties (a 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air costs $21,691) and an average auto age of 20. It is probably the only nation in the world which had more cars per capita in 1928 than it does now. Many a Buenos Aires taxi is over 30. Taxis chug along, doors tied shut with string, bodies rocking precariously on chassis, drivers flailing their arms to compensate for 180° of steering-wheel play. In Chile, where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some...
...matter "of fact, they cut the hair off four other girls (Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, Vera Miles, Carla Gravina) in the same town, because the sergeant evidently got around. And for the rest of this 100-minute movie, which was made in Italy and Austria by Director Martin (The Sound and the Fury) Ritt, the customers watch a quintet of crew-cut cuties who look about as exciting as a boy scout troop on an overnight hike...
...Hour of Great Mysteries (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Barbara Bel Geddes threads her way among assorted corpses in a story that mixes 20th century suburbia with 17th century witchcraft...