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...going to take good care of you." When she made her entrance her knees were shaking, but "directly I started I knew I was singing well. The only bad moment I had was when Amo-nasro first comes on to the stage. I turned around and sang 'Che veggo? Egli?mio padre [What do I see? It's he?my father]!' and then I couldn't find him. He was still in the wings...
...French underground during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After brief flings at real estate, the stage and auto racing, she joined the Maquis in 1940 at her summer home, in Auribeau on the Riviera. Known as "Fredericka" and la fille å la mėche blonde (because of a lock of white hair on her forehead), she served the Resistance movement for four years, once rescued 16 U.S. paratroopers stranded behind enemy lines...
Last week, as another strenuous holiday season closed, two customs seemed marked for uprooting. Roman Catholic priests and lay organizations denounced the Christmas tree and Santa Claus as "pagan and Anglo-Saxon." The crèche and the Three Kings, they suggested, are more truly Latin. By & large, Mexican fathers, cracking under the strain of two gift days, backed the drive to cast out U.S.-style celebrations. Said one: "I can't afford any more to be Santa and the Three Kings, so my wife and I decided in favor of the Three Kings." That settled, he went downtown...
...momentarily run out of new productions, but he put on a high-spirited Marriage of Figaro, and introduced a promising American newcomer while he was about it. Cleveland-born Mezzo-Soprano Mildred Miller sang a charming, properly boyish Cherubino, stopped the show with her second-act aria, Voi Che Sapete. It was, everybody agreed, the final bright spot in the Met's sparkling week...
...returned to her parents. By British law, she was under the age of consent and therefore her marriage to Mansur was annulled. The girl bride wept over the verdict. "I am a Moslem," she wailed. "I don't want to go to Christian parents." She turned to Che Aminah. "Mother, what can I do?" The Malay woman fainted...