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Late this afternoon all Crimeds will betake themselves to Philadelphia for a visit to the Betsy Ross (nee Griscom) house. After a brief meeting at the White House and a visit to Washington shrines, they will return tomorrow to compete in the Boston marathon. Odds for a Crime winner are set at 23 to 2. Results Friday...
Jean Madeira (nee Browning), 37, got her first urge to sing the part when she heard the opera as a child in St. Louis. She started out, however, as a piano student with her piano-teacher mother. She wanted to continue her studies at Manhattan's Juilliard School, but a Juilliard piano teacher told her: "If I had a voice like that I would go into opera-you can always play the piano." Jean took the advice, and eight years later was hired by the Met. Once she sang Carmen from the Met stage, but only in a student...
Died. Mistinguett, nee Jeanne Bourgeois, 82, French musicomedienne; in Bougival, a suburb of Paris. With her foghorn voice, perky Parisian personality and famed legs ("les plus belles jambes de France," allegedly insured for $3 million), "Mees" rose from flower girl to become the most luminous star of the French music hall of her time. The peak of her long career came early in the century when she played at the Folies-Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, made famous the song Mon Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with...
YUKIKA SOHMA (NEE OZAKl...
Dorothy Dandridge's Carmen has her best moments in the Habanera aria where she establishes the brand of sultriness which is to drive men mad. Miss Dandridge seems a little relenting for this demoniac task but her equipage is more than adequate. Harry Bellafonte, as Joe--nee Don Jose--relies too much on eye-popping and nerve-straining, emotional displays which the Cinema-Scopic screen shoves into the realm of the ludicrous...