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...thus far has been able to avoid taking a stand on the issue. Time is running out. Tonight, the organization's directors and officers--33 of them--will meet to tackle the most visible evidence of the split; two of the four CCA-endorsed city councillors, Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler and Thomas Coates, voted to make DeGuglielmo manager; the other two, Crane and Thomas H. D. Mahoney, steadfastly fought the change...
MADAME SARAH by Cornelia Otis Skinner. 356 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...even though toward the end she was a grotesquely overpainted, raddled old crone. Her memoirs and a dozen biographies contain such a hodgepodge of legend that it is often hard to decide whether Bernhardt was truly a gifted actress or merely a canny show-woman. In this effervescent biography, Cornelia Otis Skinner, herself an actress and writer (Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals), expertly sorts out the conflicting mass of material. Her conclusion is that Bernhardt was both a genius and a lovable loony...
...just minutes old when Contralto Maureen Forrester fixed hand to forehead, shuddered "Woe unto me," and fainted dead away. Contralto roles are like that, full of weeping and despair, the tragic counterweights that support the romantic leads. Forrester, making her U.S. operatic debut, flawlessly performed the role of Cornelia, effortlessly pouring out great billows of plum-shaded singing that served as a lush backdrop for the vocal scrollwork of the other principal singers. Where they thrilled, she caressed. Predictably, the heaviest applause went to Soprano Beverly Sills as Cleopatra and Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle as Caesar...
Brennan assured Councillor Cornelia B. Wheeler that police would also ticket cars which failed to stop at crosswalks without traffic signals...