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...screen biography it has ever produced. Starring in The Bob Mathias Story, about the Olympic and world decathlon champion: 23-year-old Mathias himself, as the athletic genius who, in stolen moments off the track and field, woos and wins a girl, who will be played by his bride Melba...
...Melba (Horizon; United Artists) treats of the life & loves of the late great Coloratura Soprano Nellie Melba (real name: Nellie Mitchell), after whom Melba toast and the peach Melba were named. It is a rich, creamy, Technicolored movie biography that consists of a series of arias, as Mme. Melba moves from one operatic triumph to another. The songs are imbedded in a fictionalized, soggily romantic yarn about the men in the diva's life: her Australian husband (John McCallum), who walked out on her (in real life, Melba left him and their child to take up an operatic career...
Making her movie debut in the title role, girlish, pixyish Metropolitan Opera Star Patrice Munsel, 27, is not very successful in re-creating Melba's tempestuous personality. But Songstress Munsel is handsomely gowned and in good voice as she sings a wide selection of numbers, from the Mad Scene in Lucia to Comin' Thro...
Married. Robert Bruce Mathias, 22, Stanford's two-time Olympic decathlon winner (1948, '52) and star fullback; and Melba Wiser, 21, a college classmate; in Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford, Calif. After his graduation next January, Mathias will report for two years' active duty as a Marine Reserve second lieutenant...
...great divas* of the "golden age of opera"; in Manhattan. Famed for the technical excellence of her voice and her "Botticellian" beauty, Soprano Eames sang in French, German and Italian opera at the Metropolitan from 1891 to 1909 with such glamorous colleagues as Caruso, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink and Melba...