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...Shakespearean Webster hoped "that the shade of Verdi may be heard to murmur 'I have not been betrayed.' " A first-rate cast was listed to do its part: Veteran Soprano Zinka Milanov as Aiïa, Elena Nikolaidi as Amneris, new Italian Tenor Mario del Monaco as Radames and George London as Amonasro. Some first-nighters might even hear Verdi's shade murmur,"In better shape than...
...China cut the chief official link between the Vatican and Chinese Roman Catholics last week. Monaco-born Archbishop Anthony Riberi, 54, papal internuncio to China since 1946, was expelled for "espionage activities...
Sizable Sprag. Last week the inevitable retaliations were going strong. In Shanghai the Catholic Central Bureau, the church's main organizational office in China, had been closed down. Communist papers were scolding Archbishop Riberi as "a resident of Monaco" (he was born in Monte Carlo) who had "interfered in the affairs of the Chinese government." The "people" were "demanding" his expulsion. It might not be long before Nuncio Riberi was escorted to the border, to join the swelling crowd of missionary priests and nuns being exiled by way of Hong Kong. Most notable recent exile was Bishop Gaetano Mignani...
...plans of Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 41, and Hollywood Dancer Patrice Wymore, 23, when a French Lutheran clergyman suddenly withdrew the use of his church. The twice-divorced groom scurried about, thought he had found another, an abandoned church in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Other reported plans: a civil ceremony in Monaco with an army guard of honor, peasants dancing in the streets, followed by a one-day honeymoon, the shortest of Flynn's career...
Italian Mario del Monaco, 27, got the evening's first big hand with his throbbing Celeste Aïda. Everyone agreed that he was an uncommonly good actor to find in grand opera, and one of the few in the business who can be made up to look like heroes, but critics found fault with him as lacking the maturity and the "finesse which marks the great artist...