Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Arlene Dahl, 29, red-haired cinema siren (Here Come the Girls) ; and Fernando Lamas, 37, Argentine-born Hollywood swashbuckler (Rose Marie); both for the second time (her first: movie Tarzan Lex Barker) ; in Las Vegas...
...popularity continues to grow. This year he expects to gross almost $1,000,000. He now lives in a $75,000 San Fernando Valley house with a piano-shaped swimming pool. Men who work with him find, somewhat to their surprise, that they like him as a nice, friendly, unassuming fellow. From the women, there is scarcely any dissent. After his triumphal show at Madison Square Garden last week, the fans stormed his dressing room. He stayed till 2 a.m., signing autographs...
...last spring a young (28) Manhattan musician named Fernando Valenti found himself stuck in a customs office in Peru. That big instrument he had with him, said the officials, was undeniably a piano, and therefore subject to import duty. It was not a piano, insisted Valenti; it was a harpsichord. Then and there, the oldtime mechanism of strings and quills was uncrated, and Valenti sat down to play while some 150 people listened. After an hour of music, officialdom was satisfied, and Valenti proceeded on his concert tour. "I have never refused to do anything unusual," he says, "so long...
...direct musical descendant of modern harpsichord greats (he is a pupil of Ralph Kirkpatrick, who is a pupil of Wanda Landowska), Fernando Valenti thinks harpsichordists must play for wider and wider audiences if interest in the instrument is not to die out. He is building a reputation as one of the most imaginative harpsichordists in the U.S., giving some 20 solo recitals a year and lecturing about the music he plays. Valenti has begun a musical marathon: recording all 555 of Scarlatti's gemlike Sonatas (for Westminster). In the past three years he has completed 72, but half seriously...
...straightened out. With minor acting interludes supplied by Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main, and a pot-bellied Indian chief, the film moves slowly to a rather cynical conclusion. Not only is red-faced, stalwart Howard Keel jilted, but Ann Blyth, who rivals the scenery for talent, rides off with Fernando Lamas to tend his trap lines for two or more years. They are not married...