Word: marias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Maria Pierangeli), 26, Italian-born cinemactress: Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 30, Brooklyn-born crooning cinemactor; after four years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...prankishness, the air is brushed with light, the carousing invokes no shudders and provides some laughs. Richard Wordsworth's Malvolio is grandly absurd in the letter scene, and in his yellow stockings and cross garters, really funny. Jane Downs's Olivia, Judi Dench's Maria, Dudley Jones's Feste, John Neville's Sir Andrew all bring something personal to their roles, and Barbara Jefford's Viola is attractively girlish whether in man's dress or woman...
...THOUSAND THINGS, by Maria Dermoût. Dutch Author Dermoût was 67 when she wrote her first novel. Locale: a strange world she intimately knew-the islands of Indonesia. Curious, bathed in memory and completely original, the book merges white and native existence in beautiful language, washes against the senses like an insistent tropical swell...
Died. Jose Maria Cardinal Caro Rodriguez, 92, Chilean Archbishop of Santiago, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals; in Santiago...
Saving her lungs for such important tasks as upper-register squelching of impresarios, Diva Maria Callas ordered no candles for her 35th birthday cake, instead plopped on the pastry one tiny light bulb, at the climactical moment puckered up for a symbolic breath, simultaneously pressed a button that throttled the glow. Explained her dutiful husband, Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini: "She thinks it's more modern...