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Mamma Erato has other children. Her pretty twin daughters Fofo and Sasa married rich right-wingers and live comfortably in a fashionable quarter of Athens, where they do their best to forget their relationship to the rebel chieftain. Another son, 34-year-old Mimi, lives in the dingy room with Erato, but he is a poor substitute for Nico. Vacillating, weak-chinned Mimi is often sullen and bitter because the government kicked him out of his longtime job in a local bank when he refused to sign an anti-Communist affidavit, but Mamma Erato has no use for his tiresome...
...ladies gathered to sip champagne and nibble pastries in honor of the hotel's 50th birthday. None contributed more glitteringly to the glitter than a white-haired little woman who greeted them at the entrance in fluent French, English or Spanish. She was 81-year-old Marie Louise ("Mimi") Ritz, widow of the man who founded the hotel-and thereby made his name a synonym for ultra-fashionable...
...Bath. Within weeks after the Ritz opened in 1898, the world had become the guest of dapper César Ritz. His intense efforts to please his patrons led to a breakdown in 1911, death seven years later. After that, his personally trained assistants ("the Academicians") and Mimi ("counselor to the management") saw to it that the Ritz tradition was maintained. Though Ritz had had an active hand in London's Carlton and a dozen other big European hotels, and had less actively sponsored the tri-continental Ritz-Carlton group, no other hotel ever achieved the rococo elegance...
Long before the dying Mimi whimpered her last notes, first-nighters in Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón were sure it had a new star. When the crimson curtain finally fell on La Bohème, even hypercritical gallery-goers joined in the ovation for 22-year-old Soprano María Helena Arizmendi...
Last year Tenor Beniamino Gigli heard María Helena, invited her to sing Mimi with him at a charity performance in the Teatro Presidente Alvear. There, talentwise Cirilo Grassi Díaz, manager of the Teatro Colón, heard her, offered her a chance at the Colón this season...