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...mate changes from a cavalier's cape, to a savage's spear, to a dance partner for the number "My Blanket and Me". Despite whatever Lucy might say, he's no "baby brother with a baby blanket," and preposterously picks apart his own psyche and that of others in Papa Bettelheim's best manner...
...professional singer? That was too much. Papa, the son of a Rumanian Jewish immigrant, had worked his way up during the Depression to become a district assistant manager for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Loving but stern, he was the kind of patriarch who had never even seen the inside of his wife's kitchen. He had never seen the inside of the vocal world either, but he knew what he thought of it. He ruled: "Bubbles is going to college and become a teacher." It was Mama, the one behind the lessons and the radio appearances, who stood fast...
Finally, in 1953, at the age of 24, she made her big-time debut with the San Francisco Opera, singing the secondary female role in Boito's Mefistofele. By that time Papa had died, but Mama was there, having flown out and taken a hotel room with a kitchenette so that she could cook Beverly's dinner before each performance. Two years later, after seven unsuccessful auditions, Beverly finally joined the New York City Opera, beginning the stint as a highly regarded utility singer that eventually led to her emergence in 1966. Conspicuously missing from the Sills dossier, then...
...Merry Widow and The Countess Maritza the second. More dubious engagements followed on the borscht circuit and at a private after-hours club in Manhattan, where she wheeled a piano around the room and performed light classics for tips that sometimes totaled $150 a night. In response to Papa's pleas that she at least devote herself to grand opera, she signed with the Charles Wagner Opera Co., a provincial touring unit. Opera it was; grand it definitely was not. Beverly soon was riding up to 300 miles between dates in a rickety bus, acquiring stiff joints, bags under...
...Frenchmen Etienne Carjat and Jean-Eugene-Auguste Atget capture the romanticism of rainy Parisian streets and of distinguished bearded gentlemen. Gertrude Kasebier explores the classic form of mother and child. And Alfred Stieglitz a papa in photographer and a great art lover, introduced the American public to Picasso, Matisse and others. His misty streets in "Glow of Night. N.Y.," and the rippling reflections of "Venetian Doorways," are nicely juxtaposed to point out staccato reflections in wet surfaces...