Word: magda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the steps of St. Vincent's Church in Lisbon walked faded, sixtyish Elena (Magda) Lupescu, longtime mistress and later wife of Rumania's late ex-King Carol, who lies buried in the church's pantheon. A widow since 1953, blonde, green-eyed Magda was Carol's faithful companion in palace and in exile for more than 30 years, now lives quietly at the villa they once shared in nearby Estoril, avidly plays canasta with a small circle of friends...
Paging Krafft-Ebing. Built during the Florida boom, the pink hotel is "a Mistinguett, a Magda Lupescu among hotels-old and slightly raddled . . . waiting patiently for the chosen few who could afford its haughty hospitality." The raffish oddballs who people the Dennis-Erskine hotel are pretty special, and would have raised Krafft-Ebing's interest if not his eyebrows. There is T. J. Sturt III, a millionaire alcoholic who wears a pink girdle and phones random city fire departments to announce blazes of mysterious origin. There is seventyish L. Harvey Crull Jr., who puts under doors pamphlets announcing...
...Menotti's best work, though musically uneven, it ranks with Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and Copland's "The Tender Land" as one of the three finest operas to come out of this country. "The Consul" demonstrates an unerring sense of theatre in its almost unrelievedly anguished tale of Magda Sorel's attempt to get out of a bureaucratic country crawling with secret police, and its tragic results--a timely story in view of recent events in Hungary...
...role of Magda was played by Patricia Neway, who won awards for it six years ago in New York. She is a superb actress as well as a consummate singer, and I found her performance here even more exalted than on Broadway. All the other singers were fine, notably Norman Adkins, Ruth Kobart, Lydia Summers and Leon Lishner. Chandler Cowles' staging was first-rate; and Evan Whallon's handling of the orchestra was expert, except for letting the piano play too loudly...
...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 night soirees, splicing her champagne with politics...