Word: mimis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeared last year with Morton Downey as M.C., now has a husband and wife team in charge: Peter Lind Hayes, genteel mugger and nightclub comic, and pretty Mary Healy, singing comedienne with a pleasant willingness to let others have their say. Under their easygoing coaxing, relatives of famous entertainers (Mimi Benzell, Mel Tormé) discuss the star of the family, who then obliges with a brief performance...
...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...