Word: hayworth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measure of a masterpiece is the amount of abuse it can take. The hit tunes from dozens of operas have been ragged, jived, jazzed, boogied, swung and popped-and most of them have emerged little the worse. Carmen, especially, has survived countless transmutations. Geraldine Farrar, Theda Bara and Rita Hayworth all vamped their way through screen versions; Bea Lillie mauled it at the Met. Maya Plisetskaya danced it to an orchestration including 47 percussion instruments. Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones gave Bizet's gypsy girl a surname and set her to work packing parachutes in the Deep South...
Married. Rebecca Welles, 25, daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, a recent drama graduate of the University of Puget Sound in Washington; and Perry Moede, 22, a sculptor; both for the first time; in a private ceremony in Tacoma, Wash...