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...jumping from desk chair to piano bench composing his operas, Menotti occasionally likes to try some dramatics himself. Sociable, voluble, and almost childishly concerned and curious about other people ("He has the soul of a concierge," says Cowles), he loves to pack his roomy, rambling house in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. with weekend guests. On such occasions, they often play "The Game"-charades. Says Cowles: "Menotti is a very hammy actor, and he always insists on making all the rules...
Married. Henry John ("Jack") Heinz II, 39, president of H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz Co. (and grandson of the founder); and Jane Ewing Jenney, thirtyish, socialite divorcee; both for the second time; in Mt. Kisco...
...spent more & more time in the U.S. He painted a series of murals for the Department of Justice building in Washington, found himself represented in 16 U.S. museums, including Manhattan's Metropolitan, and the owner of a summer cottage on Cape Cod and a house in suburban Mount Kisco...
Billy Rose, Broadway showman-columnist, who got a look at postwar Europe on a junket about a year ago, decided to import 25 war orphans and raise them on the 125 acres he added last year to his 57-acre farm in Mt. Kisco...
With Fellow Composer Samuel Barber, Poet Robert Horan and a cocker spaniel, he lives in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. He is still an Italian citizen, but except for Amelia Goes to the Ball, his work is almost unknown in his native Italy. When the war came Mussolini's censors put Menotti on the forbidden list. Anyway, opera like The Telephone wouldn't be grand enough. Says Menotti: "In Italy they hate chamber opera. They like to have about 500 people in the cast...