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Jenny, like Agujari and Sumac, is no freak. Her range is considerably greater than most,† her voice is sweet and powerful, and she has it under reliable, effortless command. (She can cover almost an additional two octaves, but with little musical value.) In her tenor range she can sound either like a contralto or a real male tenor. Some critics find Jenny's voice a bit dry, but this can be overcome, she believes, before she makes her professional debut. She does not plan to make it for about two years. Until then, she will continue to study...
Announcing in his deep, effortless voice that Lear could not go on but that Welles would, he apologized for looking more like "the man who came to dinner" than a tormented monarch. He candidly confessed that since the City Center was a nonprofit, cultural organization that needed the money, he had "come out to discourage a stampede to the box office." Only a few hundred of an estimated 2,800 present asked for refunds. The rest settled back for An Evening with Orson Welles...
...robe and sang of her love for an unknown troubadour (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling), until she took poison and died in Act IV, her voice contained some of the bite and much of the richness of a clarinet. But its quality was warmed and softened with womanliness. It floated with effortless grace, swelled until it filled the whole block-long auditorium, tapered off sensuously into a decorative vocal arabesque. Whether she was making the most of one of her meaty arias or balancing her tones in ensemble with another singer's, the Callas voice went straight to the listener...
...newcomer in the story, however, is anything but childlike. Anne Baxter portrays her as a conniving liar who bides behind an assumed front of innocence. Miss Baxter manages to make the sudden transitions in characterization appear smooth and effortless. George Sanders, though, won the only Oscar for acting in All About Eve. His is the supporting role of a cynical critic, a suave and predatory animal which feeds off the talents of others...
...usual, the epitome of that world was Margot Fonteyn, who again opened the U.S. tour with Sleeping Beauty. She was nimble and fleet, as a princess should be, poised and incredibly effortless as she accepted her suitors' greetings in the arduous Rose adagio, where even the most accomplished technician is apt to teeter unhappily as she stands stock-still on one pointe and accepts a rose from four courtiers, one after the other...