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...Canada's best-dressed women (TIME, Jan. 26) was out last week ringing doorbells, talking with housewives, speaking to Tory meetings. Fiorenza Drew, wife of Premier George Drew, had taken on the job of lining up votes for George in this week's provincial elections...
...Fiorenza," said a Toronto Tory last week, "is the best thing that ever happened to George." She has an easy grace and charm; her husband is reserved: his enemies call him haughty. In a recent 4,000-mile campaign swing through the Lakehead and northern Ontario Mrs. Drew made scores of speeches on the same platform with the Premier. "I just stand up and chat," says Fiorenza. "I don't get into the issues of the election. I let George do that." She was a big success. Said one of her listeners: "A lot of people, if they...
Daughter of Metropolitan Opera Manager Edward Johnson, Fiorenza was born in Florence, educated in Europe and the U.S. She speaks French and Italian fluently, finds both an asset in her barnstorming. "Did you know," she asked, "that there are 5,000 Italians in the Soo? They love to hear their language spoken...
...Metropolitan Opera was putting on its first matinee of the season for high-school students-and, incidentally, giving promising 23-year-old Fiorenza Quartararo a chance to rehearse Carmen with the orchestra. No critics were expected. But the New York Times's Howard Taubman dropped in. He came away singing the praises, not of Rise Stevens' Carmen, but of Fiorenza's Micaela. Wrote he: "Astonishing assurance . . . true lyric quality . . . affecting simplicity. . . . Miss Quartararo, who is also good to look at, seems to have what it takes. . . . She may be the find of the season...
...Miss Fiorenza Quartararo, a San Franciscan of Italian parentage, had made only two big-league appearances before: once when she filled in for Helen Traubel on a day's notice at the Hollywood Bowl, once on Bing Crosby's radio program. She called herself Florence Alba then. When she won the $1,000 Caruso Award last fall and was hired by the Met, the Met persuaded her to go back to her original name. She will make her formal Metropolitan debut next month-as Micaela...