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...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist: Mimi Benzell...
When Kirsten was 16, she started to study. She recalls that "my voice was very small, but it carried." For many years she sang light lyric roles (Mimi, Rosalinda). Her voice first began to grow into its present astonishing hall-filling power when she started to study Isolde, at 37. She found that after only three weeks of the vocal exertion Wagner demands, "my back became two inches broader. I did not gain any weight, but I couldn't get into my old dresses...
...just plain nice and not a bit like the boys back home," decided Missouri's blonde, well-curved "Mimi" Medart, 16, after meeting Egypt's rolypoly King Farouk. Mimi, daughter of onetime Cinemactress Donal Blossom and St. Louis Restaurateur William Medart, first caught the monarch's roving eye in the casino at Deauville. Next day, the two had a chat on the beach, which Farouk followed with a kingly bouquet of flowers. Asked by reporters if she would like to marry royalty, Mimi burbled, "Sure, if I loved him. Aren't Rita and Aly Khan happy...
...Metropolitan Opera's pretty Coloratura Mimi Benzell, 26, caused a few lowbrow eyebrows to rise when, in a Hollywood nightclub, she unexpectedly gave the customers some lowdown blues and a couple of ladylike bumps. Said she: "I'm making a lot of people like opera that never could stand it before...
...Paris) Paul brooded, in the current Atlantic, on Paris' modern grisette: "The female denizen of the [Latin] Quarter, vintage 1950, is slender, supple and strong. The calves of her legs . . . indicate . . . that for years she has gone from place to place on bicycles . . . She is not consumptive, like Mimi . . . She does as she likes . . . When she takes a fancy to a poor young man . . . it is not the modern Mimi who will be timid or afraid. It will be Rudolph, if anyone, who trembles...