Word: eva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road. Susanna will be Seefried's only role at the Met this season (she will sing it five times). But in signing her, the company has taken on a soprano who has a wide repertory of lyric soprano roles, e.g., Eva in Meistersinger, Micaela in Carmen, Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. She learned more than a score of such roles in the conservatory at Augsburg, Bavaria, before she was 19, kept expanding her repertory in the opera at Aachen, where she stayed three years, and Vienna, where she has been for the past decade...
...slapstick skit on her Manhattan TV show, Comedienne Martha Raye tried to pass herself off as another Gabor sister, but found that her resemblance to glamorous Magda, Eva and Zsa Zsa overstrained the family...
Spiers, a truculent individualist, refused. He hired lawyers and appealed. He took Eva-in slacks-to court with him. The Appeals Committee agreed that "the slacks are altogether seemly"; they criticized the school uniform system ("There is altogether too much uniformity"); they revoked Spiers' fine...
...Matter of Discipline. Now it was the school's turn to appeal. Lord Goddard, the Lord Chief Justice, heard the case last week. Two doctors told him that Eva had rheumatism, and ought to be kept warm. "But keeping warm has nothing to do with wearing slacks," boomed one judge. "One of the warmest garments is the kilt." Lord Goddard summed up: "Suppose some parents said they thought that in summer a child, in the interests of health, should go to school without clothes-what then? Would the headmistress be obliged to admit the child? The headmistress...
...gone into this fight." Out of work now and ailing, he was keeping his family on $10.50 a week. "I shall stand by my rights. I am an Englishman and I fought for my country . . ." Mrs. Spiers was with him to the bitter end. "I'll take Eva back to school," she said, "in slacks. Then it is up to the police...