Word: highstrung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera was still clearly enemy territory, but flashy, highstrung Diva Maria Callas found somewhere to sing in Manhattan anyway. Delighted to have Maria under its wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused...
Marriage Revealed. Judy (Over the Rainbow) Garland, 30, highstrung singing star of screen and vaudeville; and Michael Sidney Luft, 36, her business agent; she for the third time, he for the second; on June 8 in Paicines, Calif...
Dressed in jacket and well-creased slacks, highstrung Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn boarded the liner America for England, where she will play the lead in a Liverpool production of Shaw's The Millionairess. "I've always wanted to do this part," twanged Katy. "This is a wonderful character embodying everything in me that people dislike, but which I like very much...
When a group of highstrung American Legionnaires in Dallas heard that Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel was scheduled to be soloist in the cantata Alexander Nevsky, a eulogy to a 13th Century Russian patriot, they stirred up civic feeling against the lyrics. Everybody was happy after the word "Russians" was changed to "people," "Russian soil" to "fertile soil," "Russian valor" to "native valor...
...days after he was divorced by highstrung Cinemactress Bette Davis, 42, William Grant Sherry, 35. announced that he would marry Marion Richards, 23, nursemaid to his and Bette's three-year-old daughter Barbara. Said Sherry: "Marion is a very spiritually impressive girl...