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Instead of presenting Maria Callas [Oct. 29] as a true diva-one who is generous, dignified and kind-you only succeed in impressing me that she is an overindulged, selfish, unforgiving egocentric.
After her success at La Scala, Callas began to lose weight. In three years she dropped from 202 Ibs. to a sleek 135 Ibs. "She got what she wanted, so she stopped overeating," explained an interested doctor. In Milan she began to live the life of the prima donna and...
Meneghini sleeps. Says Callas: "My best hours are in bed, and my best work too, with my dog cuddling beside me and my husband asleep."
To a world laboring under the impression that a prima donna must be corpulent to be operatic, Callas' sensational slimming has caused much shaking of heads and predictions of vocal perdition. But the newly glamorous Maria, thin, relaxed and even daring to taste the pleasures of the idle rich...
Soprano Callas has yet to face the ordeal of her Metropolitan debut next week. It is an ordeal that has yielded severe criticisms for such famed prima donnas as Melba. Sembrich, Nordica and Farrar, and conceivably could be a bitter experience for her as well. But Callas has faced bitter...