Word: ljuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ljuba. Rumania's new secret power, says Dr. Cohen, is another woman: Ljuba, brunette Bessarabian wife of Vice Premier Iosif Chisinevschi. No prude where Soviet officers were concerned, Ljuba got her husband the fat job of food-procurement officer for the Soviet army of occupation in 1946. Chisinevschi quickly moved up the power line and today, by virtue of his wife's cozy relations with the Soviet embassy, bosses the government. In a beautiful pavilion near Bucharest, in the formal royal park where King Carol's Magda Lupescu once frolicked, attractive, dark-eyed Ljuba holds brilliant Thursday...
...Married. Ljuba ("I am a ripe wooman") Welitch, 42, redhaired, dumpling-shaped Bulgarian soprano whose sensual Salome at the Metropolitan Opera (1949) had audiences hanging on till the seventh veil; and handsome Vienna Traffic Cop Karl Schmalvogl, 29; both for the second time; in Vienna...
Conductor Fritz Reiner whipped his orchestra through a vivid and powerful performance. Most of the singing was first-rate. But the main event, the sensuous "Dance of the Seven Veils," by red-haired Ljuba Welitch, was a decided letdown. Back from Vienna for her first appearance this season, Soprano Welitch sang in a voice as electric as ever, but as she stripped herself of her veils, it became amply clear that Viennese cooking has more than agreed with her. The irreverent Daily News found her somewhat grotesque gyrations "hilariously funny . . . She bounces...
Strauss: Fledermaus (Lily Pons, soprano; Ljuba Welitch, soprano; Richard Tucker, tenor; Charles Kullman, tenor; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; John Brownlee, baritone; orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). The Met's hit of the season, minus Patrice Munsel (who has a Victor contract). Recording: good...
Bumps & Grinds. There were a few jarring notes. As the operetta's dupe, Eisenstein, Wagnerian Tenor Set Svanholm occasionally staggered like a fugitive from Götterdämmerung. Red-haired Soprano Ljuba (Salome) Welitch sometimes overacted her Rosalinda. Antony Tudor's ballroom ballet was a sour grape. But the singing and acting of the Met's 25-year-old Coloratura Patrice Munsel (as Adele) made up for all of that. Slim, pretty Patrice twice stopped the whole show cold. Her first show-stopping smash, delivered (with the help of new lyrics by Howard Dietz) with...