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Maria Meneghini Callas, a famous diva. . .Soprano Giovanni Meneghini, her aging husband. . .Bass Elsa Maxwell, her trusted confidante Baritone Evangelia Callas, her estranged mother. . .Contralto Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy shipowner. . .Tenor Athina Onassis, his beautiful young wife. . .Mezzo...
...festival in Venice opened with all the bang of a wet firecracker. The movies themselves were such drabs that even critics from the Communist press panned the Communist entries. Worse yet, bikinis were bigger, scandals were smaller, and most of the stars stayed away. Desperate news photographers finally invaded Elsa Maxwell's beach cabana in the forlorn hope of finding someone to shoot. But Elsa turned back the attack with a barrage of pillows and a trumpeted battle cry: "Away! Away, dogs!'' As for the festival, said Elsa, casually hamstringing an infinitive: "It's the most horrible thing to ever...
Whatever the critics think, Actor Laughton is convinced that his is Shakespeare's true Lear. With his wife, Elsa Lanchester, he studied the play in a facsimile of the First Folio all last winter, finally concluded that the author had scored it like music. Voice inflections, pitch, rhythms, everything seemed indicated by what would otherwise be pointless punctuation and irrational typography. "Elsa noticed it first, and I think she was the first to treat it that way. But it works! It works! Shakespeare tells you how to say every word...
Back to a Love. World War II forced Landowska. who was of Jewish origin, to flee France. She came to the U.S. and settled in Lakeville, Conn., with Elsa Schumicke and Denise Restout, who had been her constant companions for more than 25 years. There she concentrated on recording her interpretation of the old masters. Her recording of the 48 labyrinthine preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is a modern classic. Landowska called it "my last will and testament." It was far from her last. At 76, but with the spirit of a sprite, the high...
...home on the banks of the Mississippi for a new one in the city. A reporter from Chicago comes down to see the room in which Alison worked, and off we go. Old Aunt Agatha, Alison's constant companion, now grown senile, tries unsuccessfully to burn down the house. Elsa Stanhope who, years before, ran off with a married man, returns to spend one final night in the house. Aunt Agatha dies in Elsa's arms, first giving her a packet containing many previously hidden poems of Alison's. The poems disclose all of the details of the starcrossed love...