Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After 25 years, you are not what you were," reflected Diva Maria Callas last week. Though critics have been telling the volatile prima donna something like that for years, the Callas star quality still blazes in Japan where she and Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano have drawn sellout audiences and 40-minute curtain calls during their concert tour. Pausing in her $330-a-day Tokyo hotel suite, where the air-conditioning ducts were sealed to protect the famous Callas cords, the star spoke of her on-again, off-again career. "At a certain point in my life I had wanted...
...support the strikes," said Maria Salati, 35, "short-term work is only a prelude to unemployment." Giuseppe de Biase, 40, disagreed. "I don't want to strike. That only benefits management. I'm afraid that if there's no work, we're going back to hunger." Jobless men will receive unemployment benefits, but they will still lose $10 a week in wages. Said Gerardo Mansi, 34, father of five: "Los ing $40 a month for somebody who's got to go through acrobatics to get through the month as it is is like losing...
...moment arrives one night when Myron is televiewing Siren of Babylon, a 1948 costume turkey starring Bruce Cabot and Maria Montez. As Myron ad justs his set, the imprisoned Myra shoves him through the screen, and he finds himself back in 1948 on the MGM set where the movie is being shot...
Myra's own fate is to wind up in the body of Maria Montez - unable to understand Spanish. With Myra foiled, a puzzled Myron returns to the rightful side of the TV screen. It must be seen as a victory of banality over evil - at least temporarily...
...Daughter of the Regiment stands somewhere in that middle ground. In the Wolf Trap production, which has a splendid supporting cast (notably Tenor William McDonald, Bass Spiro Malas, Mezzo Muriel Costa-Greenspun) and is crisply conducted by Charles Wendelken-Wilson, Sills plays Maria, a lowly orphan girl who has been adopted and reared by a regiment of Napoleon's soldiers in the Austrian Tyrol. The love of her life, Tonio, a young peasant who wears short pants and sings a high C at any sign of affection, joins the troop to be near her-alas, just as Marie...