Word: mimis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aristocratic young cavalry lieutenant of the French Fourth Hussars had decided to stage an ice carnival for his pert blonde mistress Mimi. When the Moselle froze solid one night in 1879, he had the snow-decked pines along the river bank festooned with gaily colored lanterns. Mimi made her entrance in a sled carved like a swan. At a signal, all lights except those from a bank of flaming punch bowls were doused, and fur-coated flunkies served up a feast of Parisian delicacies and champagne. To cap the party, a clump of snow-cleared pines was set ablaze...
...roses all the way. One night, Manhattan saw Soprano Dorothy Kirsten's Tosca, which had brought the house down in San Francisco two seasons ago. It sent only a mild tremor through the Met's formidable masonry. "Singing Tosca," chirped the Daily News, "she made an excellent Mimi." But at week's end Baritone Robert Merrill got off to an impressive start in his first Rigoletto, and his divorced bride Soprano Roberta Peters, as Gilda, matched him with a Caro nome that stopped the show...
...Going to Maxim's. There are gypsy dances, a Parisian can-can and a lavish Merry Widow waltz, as well as a good deal of hand kissing, heel clicking, flower tossing, serenades under balconies and debauchery at Maxim's with Lolo, Frou Frou, Mimi, Yvette and Nicolette. Everyone works very hard at being gay, but somehow this Merry Widow is not always as lighthearted as it might be, perhaps because the makers of the picture tell the story as if they meant it. Valuable touches of insouciance are provided by Una Merkel as the widow's maid...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Mimi Benzell in Of Lena Geyer...
...Dear Mimi, sweet Mimi Of La Bohème fame, Face, pretty as a picture, And gosh! What a frame...