Word: contraltos
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Toscanini said that a voice like hers comes but once in a century. Now Contralto Marian Anderson, 61, has decided that it will soon be time to retire. The first Negro to sing at the Metropolitan Opera (in 1955), possessor of a score of honorary degrees and countless other kudos, she will undertake one last world tour running from next October to the following June, with a final U.S. appearance on Easter Sunday, 1965, in Carnegie Hall. Carnegie's box office is already getting ticket requests...
...Among them: Contralto Marian Anderson, Cellist Pablo Casals, Educator James B. Conant, Virologist John F. Enders, Justice (retired) Felix Frankfurter, Inventor (Polaroid camera) Edwin H. Land, Bankers Robert A. Lovett and John J. McCloy, Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Steelman Clarence B. Randall, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Photographer Edward Steichen, Authors E. B. White, Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson, and Painter Andrew Wyeth...
...redoubtable Miss Maxwell soon discovered that she could not only keep a party going with her thumping piano and her grainy contralto-she could stage one like nobody's business. She also learned that the established rich would pay for a party if it promised amusement, and the aspiring rich would pay to be insulted. She came up with all kinds of gimmicks-Treasure Hunt parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite parties ("I could have met my expenses selling tickets to psychiatrists"), Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called parties, and uncountable sessions of The Game...
Magnetized Talents. Dedicated musicianship of Dunn's caliber attracts talent like a magnet. The warm contralto of the Metropolitan Opera's Lili Chookasian, the glowing mezzo-soprano of Negro Betty Allen, and the responsive, impeccable bowing of Dunn's small string sections all brightened last week's performance of Britten's Rape of Lucretia. Such artists have taught critics and audiences alike that whatever Thomas Dunn tackles musically will be worth doing and done memorably well...
Blonde, beautiful, and serenely inaccessible to all but her oldest friends, Princess Grace of Monaco, 33, made the oh-so official visits to Philadelphia landmarks, her visit back home climaxed by a gala Crystal Ball, where she greeted 600 elite guests, among them Contralto Marian Anderson. Though honored by the sponsoring Fashion Group of Philadelphia, the Princess bypassed local couturiers for a deep blue organza gown by Balenciaga. Grace's mother, Mrs. John B. Kelly Sr., wore a blush pink satin frock purchased in Atlantic City. Said she unblushingly, "I don't pay any attention to designers...