Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually Miss Callas gave far more than she received, though it took some striving. Her first dinner meeting with De Carvalho in Milan went smoothly enough. "Ask me anything," she said. Long after midnight the questions were still coming, the soprano was still going, and her husband was muttering to George: "Never heard her talk like this to anyone before." But after another searching session at lunch the following day, Miss Callas cried enough...
...Midnight Polish. The war over, Maria returned to New York. The Met offered her the role of Madame Butterfly, but she did not dare try it at her weight. A chance to sing in Chicago blew up when the company went broke. For two years she remained in New York, studying, practicing and eating, but never singing in public. Discouraged and despondent, she sailed for Italy, where she got a job in Verona (at $63 a performance), an audition but no job at La Scala (the director told her that she had lots of faults...
...coach her, and the two went to work. In Turin, before she was to appear as Aida, a curious critic wandered into the theater at 9 a.m. to find her onstage, going over every passage again and again. while Serafin interrupted, corrected, polished tirelessly. They worked until midnight, were at it again early next day. Callas' Aida became Turin's biggest postwar success...
Gauvreau's staff ghosted byline stories by golddiggers. gigolos and bootleggers to keep his growing readership titillated with "heart balm" suits, gang wars and midnight revelries. Typical headline: HE BEAT MEI LOVE HIM. When a young mother walked into his office, introducing herself as Nan Britton and her child as the late President Harding's illegitimate daughter, Gauvreau splashed her story. He got the jump on Lindbergh's arrival in Paris before the plane had even been sighted in Ireland by taking a chance on printing and distributing 50,000 papers plastered with the photo...
...crowd estimated at 5,000 greeted Adlai E. Stevenson when he arrived at Logan Airport just before midnight last night. He will speak tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Mechanics Hall on a nation-wide TV hookup...