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Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, recent victor in a high E-flat free-for-all with an octet of Chicago process servers (TIME, Nov. 28), plunged a legal fork into an Italian macaroni company. On the tines of her suit: Maria's ex-physician and husband's brother-in-law, Dr. Giovanni Cazzarolli, the Pastificio Pantanella Co. and Prince Marcantonio Pacelli, who is Pastificio's legal eagle as well as a nephew of Pope Pius XII. La Callas, 31, weighing in at a svelte 135 Ibs., charged that Dr. Cazzarolli had issued a false certificate, ballyhooed...
After duly stabbing herself to wind up a soaring performance in Madame Butterfly, Hell's-Kitchen-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (TIME, Nov. 21) strode offstage in Chicago's Civic Opera House, applause still caressing her ears. She fluttered straight into an ambush party of eight process servers, who were there to tag her with summonses in breach-of-contract suits brought against her by a Manhattan lawyer. Windmilling in outrage and trilling furiously in English and Italian, Grand Diva Callas erupted: "Get your hands off me! Don't touch me, don't touch me! Chicago...
...curtains closed on Chicago's Civic Opera House stage, and the scene's two principal singers stepped out to acknowledge the applause. First came Baritone Robert Weede, looking vaguely troubled, although he had sung well. Then, her hand in his, appeared Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas. She seemed overcome with gratitude as she curtsied, threw Weede a sidelong glance out of her dark almond eyes, blew a shy kiss to the audience, and grinned a triumphant little grin at the second balcony. Suddenly, Baritone Weede snatched his hand from hers and dashed for the wings, to let her reap...
...world's great sopranos, La Scala's U.S.-born Maria Meneghini Callas, made her U.S. debut in Chicago last week. It was a rouser. recalling Chicago's greatest operatic days with Mary Garden and Galli-Curci...
Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, 29-year-old Brooklyn-born U.S. citizen and currently undisputed prima donna of Italian opera, signed a contract last month to make her U.S. debut in La Traviata at the Metropolitan. Last week she canceled the contract. Reason: a clause which provided that her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an industrialist, would make the trip with her. The clause could not be fulfilled, despite the efforts of Met-Manager Rudolf Bing. The U.S. Consulate in Venice refused to give Giovanni a visa on the grounds that he could not prove intention to return to Italy...