Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tender helpmate than a driven woman goading her weak husband to murder. But in the sleepwalking scene she rendered Verdi's compassionate music with memorable grace. As Macbeth, Baritone Leonard Warren walked through his part woodenly but sang as well as ever, while as Macduff, Tenor Carlo Bergonzi delivered one of the evening's real stunners...
...same room where Errol Flynn was married to one of his three wives eight years ago. a mayor of Monte Carlo was last week about to perform another, humbler, wedding. Suddenly a liveried bailiff burst in, crying: "Monsieur Boisson! You're not mayor any more...
Boisson was not the only civil functionary to get the boot last week. In a surprise morning broadcast to his people, sandwiched in between the commercials and the canned music on Radio Monte Carlo, Prince Rainier III "temporarily" suspended Monaco's constitution and fired both the 18-man National Council and the Municipal Council. The 3,000 citizens and 18,000 foreign residents of the park-sized, 370-acre principality were warned that "public meetings of a political character" were banned...
...still shone in Monte Carlo, sailboats skittered about the bay, the gambling casino still earned enough francs to pay its share of the costs of government. To show their unconcern with events and their trust in their subjects, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace left their pink palazzo to attend a gala Monte Carlo performance of La Bonne Soupe, the touring Parisian comedy hit about prostitutes. Both their Serene Highnesses found it "very amusing...
...Mike did consent to stand in for Donald Campbell in his try next year at the world land-speed record, but only in the event of Campbell's death. But for Mike, the perilous routine of dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally, he snorted: "Not likely, mate. It's too darned dangerous." He had an equally wary word for the speed-prone public: "The roads are getting proper death traps. If you ask me, the racetrack is safer than the road between Farnham and London...