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Latest beneficiary of Alemán's thoughtfulness : Leonora Amar, a full-lipped, companionable, young Brazilian actress, whom U.S. taxpatriate A. C. "Blumey" Blumenthal brought around. Alemán boosted Senhorita Amar to stardom in Mexican films...
...sufficient. Saturday night's performance of the "Eroica," the Overture Number Three to Leonora, and Copland's suite for ballet, Appalachian Spring, showed both the prime virtues and the great defects of the performances at Symphony Hall. Aside from the magnificent discipline and precision of the entire group, especially the strings, Koussevitzky's faithful adherence to the production of new music is the outstanding advantage of Boston. But there is an element of fatigue in Dr. Koussevitzky's approach to the great traditional works of the symphonic repertoire; he has done them a number of times...
...constitutional monarch in 1941, has found it even more difficult to maintain discipline over his glamorous family than over his head-hunting subjects. Despite his patient parental plaints that there are no legal princesses on Sarawak, his three daughters continue to be dubbed Princesses Gold, Baba and Pearl. Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her father when she became the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape. Less pleased was the Raja when his daughter Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandleader Harry Roy, and his youngest daughter, Nancy Valerie (Princess Baba) married Wrestler Bob Gregory, who later divorced...
Although she had done a good deal of miscellaneous operatic trouping, Soprano Resnik had never sung the taxing lead role of Leonora in Trovatore. Twenty-four hours before curtain time, Manager Edward Johnson offered her the chance. She spent the next morning fitting costumes. Then, in an hour and a half, she learned the stage business. At 4:30 in the afternoon her foresighted mother cooked her a mammoth steak dinner...
Regina Resnik sang Leonora with a big, warm voice, an accurate technique and plenty of self-assurance. Afterward she stayed up all night waiting for the reviews in the late editions of the morning papers. They acclaimed hers as the most promising of all the Metropolitan's debuts this season...