Word: carr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ostentatiously cheered, and watched her rival start to tremble. Callas sensibly -if a little too innocently-points out that there are plenty of operas for two top sopranos in La Scala's big repertory. The fact is, Callas thrives on opposition. "When I'm angry, I carr do no wrong," she says. "I sing and act like someone possessed." But Tebaldi wilts. "She's got no backbone. She's not like Callas." Year by year Tebaldi reduced her appearances, until last year she was absent entirely from La Scala, and Callas held the field with...
...Long afterward, when the late Carr Van Anda, managing editor, was visiting Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail in London, Northcliffe's editor opened a desk drawer and showed him a copy of the Times dated April 19, 1912. Said he: "We keep this as an example of the greatest accomplishment in news reporting...
Next day she held an hour-long interview with 250 pressmen jammed into the chandeliered River Room of London's Savoy Hotel. Reported Daily Telegraph Newshen Winifred Carr, dolefully: "I've had my eyes well and truly opened about men, after watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence." Glowed the Daily Mirror: "Marilyn Monroe, the sleek, the pink...
Died. Charlotte Carr, 66, gusty, bushy-browed social worker, successor to the late Jane Addams as head (1937-43) of Chicago's famed slum settlement Hull House, head of all home relief in teeming New York City during the hard-pressed mid-'30s of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...call their own. Result: the biggest crop of new names in years. So far, none of their finds is likely to jeopardize the record sales of such old reliables as Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore, but some are well worth a listen. Bethlehem puts its money on Helen Carr (Why Do I Love You) and Terry Morel (Songs of a Woman in Love); EmArcy displays the modern phrasings of Helen Merrill; Storyville has uncovered a sweet-husky voice on Introducing Milli Vernon; Liberty's Lonely Girl exploits its success with Julie London, a talented miss who spends most...