Word: delia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mutterings last week when Cobbler Michael Delia Rocca, with the help of another cobbler, former Contestant Gino Prato, won CBS's $64,000 Question. Critics charged that: 1) Delia Rocca was actually a professional impresario, and 2) Gino Prato's appearance was simply a buildup for a new Revlon show to be called The $64,000 Challenge, starring past quiz winners...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:30 p.m., ABC). Die Meistersinger, with Edelmann, Delia Casa, Hopf...
...book is Moravia's The Unfortunate Lover, about a catty mistress who plays a cruel game of Iloveyou, I-love-you-not with her mouselike lover. The best war story is Indro Montanelli's O. Henry-like His Excellency. A monocled, tight-corseted army corps commander named Delia Rovere is clapped into a Milan prison by the Germans in the spring of 1944. He lets his junior fellow officers know that Italy expects them to face the firing squad with courage: "An officer is at all times merely on temporary duty; he is, as the Spaniards...
...Hollywood one day last fall, Songstress Beryl Davis, British-born and an Anglican, persuaded three other well-known Hollywood girls to help out on an evening's entertainment at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Her helpers: Songstresses Connie Haines, a Southern Presbyterian, Delia Russell, a Roman Catholic, and Actress Jane Russell, a nondenominational Protestant. Beryl directed the other three in a swingy version of Do Lord, an oldtime hymn. The audience gave them a huge hand, and thereby launched a new U.S. gospel quartet on a promising career...
...last week the quartet's peppy recording of Do Lord had sold 180,000 copies. The quartet (with Rhonda Fleming, a Mormon, now filling in for Delia Russell) has four more recordings scheduled for April, a date to sing on the Colgate Comedy Hour's Easter Sunday broadcast, and a projected movie short. Easter billing: "The Four Girls Making a Joyful Noise unto the Lord...