Word: countesses
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...opera sung in foreign tongues: German, in particular, they think, is a language that sits uneasily in the throat. Nevertheless, when Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 46, was lured to Paris to make a double debut-as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Paris Opéra, and as the Countess in Capriccio at the Opéra Comique-both productions were cast in the original German. In Soprano Schwarzkopf's case, the language might also have served as a reminder of her early career as a leader of a Nazi studentbund and a wartime favorite of Nazi audiences...
Kean defeats every proposition it advances. It claims that Kean was a great lover, but Alfred Drake never plays a love scene. Every encounter he has with the two women in his stage life, a Danish countess (Joan Weldon) and a middle-class would-be actress (Lee Venora), is fashioned as a farcical skit...
Born. To Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 31, and Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, 31, elegant ex-commoner and onetime court photographer: their first child, a son; in Clarence House, Queen Mother Elizabeth's London residence. The 6-lb. 4-oz. child automatically received his father's secondary title, Viscount Linley, but while the Royal Family searched for proper Christian names, delighted London newspapers referred to him simply as "the Jones boy.'' He is fifth in line for the British throne, after Queen Elizabeth's three children and his mother-exactly the same position...
...Countess wants but one thing release from the awful curse that compels her nightly so drain the blood of an innocent person. In her struggle in symbolized men's attempt to free himself from his own instincts...
...acting is generally good and in some cases superb. Countess Elesca is portrayed by an obscure actress who nevertheless does a remarkable job. She carries herself with the dignity of one enlightened through suffering, and in her periods of involuntary evil follows her unconquerable instincts with grisly resolution. She also achieves outstanding expressiveness with simple movements; merely sitting up slowly in her coffin at sunset she moves the viewer greatly...