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Then she told how it all happened. Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of Puccini's La Bohème in Turin in 1896, was to perform it again, on its 50th anniversary, over NBC. He had picked the Met's Licia Albanese for Mimi, Jan Peerce for Rodolfo. For the second feminine lead (Musetta) he had tried out 30 women, was satisfied with none. Then Met Conductor Wilfred Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only...
Turned out to pasture for eight months, the filly got rest, treatment for her game leg, the nickname "Mimi." Then 52-year-old Frenchy jerked a black & white plaid cap down over his ears, lifted his 128 lbs. into the saddle, set about the business of legging-up Happy Issue for the racing wars. Allowing no one near his filly, the ex-jockey quadrupled as groom, exercise boy, owner and trainer. From then on it was a rags-to-riches campaign...
...failing heart, was on the phone listening to Laurina, his ex-mistress, read aloud from his old love letters. "You have the power," she read, "of arousing desires that are infinite and . . . can never be assuaged by ... a merely finite body." "Golly!" said Eustace, absently stroking his current Mistress Mimi, "did I say that...
...world ("an all-pervading silence that shone and was alive. Beautiful with more than the beauty of even Mozart's music. . . ."), he was embarrassed to find his digestive processes continuing with a "purring" noise. If he tried hard, he managed to recapture physical sensations and sensual memories of Mimi. But to his horror he found himself faced by the same spiritual problems as had dogged him on earth. A "divine white light" kept trying to make a decent human being out of him, but Eustace preferred to float vacuously throughout eternity rather than give...
Seen awhile back as the brattish younger sister in "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," Diana Lynn has been doing leg exercises, and turns up very well as a not-so-brutish younger sister who can rally sing and play the piano. The girl ought to go far. Mimi Chandler seems to have been inserted solely to differentiate the Angels four from the many feminine tri-vocal ensembles. No other reason is apparent...