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...Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 54, will need all her poise to stay in the spotlight at the gala benefit in Manhattan for Washington, D.C.'s National Ballet next week. Appearing as Princess Aurora in a sequence from Sleeping Beauty, Fonteyn will be supported by a quartet of amateur ballerinas but professional scene-stealers: Film Star Paulette Goddard, 62, as the Queen, TV Panelist Arlene Francis, 65, as the Lilac Fairy, Broadway Dancer Gwen Verdon, 47, as a comical Little Red Ridinghood, and Actress Julie Newmar, 38, as the White Cat. Newmar rises to a majestic...
...soprano cannot always be prima donna assoluta, but Maria Callas, 49, does not stop behaving like one. With only three days to go before her first concert in eight years, Callas bowed out with an eye infection, plunging London Impresario Sandor Gorlinsky and 3,000 fans, some of whom had paid over ? 100 a ticket on the black market, into purgatorio. Before her vision clouded, however, Callas had seen Gorlinsky schedule her old archrival Soprano Renata Tebaldi, 51, for a London recital just 17 days after her own comeback...
...made me realize that I wasn't putting 100% into my matches, that I can produce some good tennis only when I'm really hungry to win." Added her mother and traveling companion, Colette: "Europe was good for Chrissie. She realized that she was no longer the prima donna. She had her first slump. Nobody paid much attention to her at Wimbledon because she had been losing. It was a kind of relief...
...hero (Hugh Franklin) is a playwright. The playwright's young composer godson (David Dukes) is engaged to a tempestuous prima donna (Elizabeth Owens). Late one night godfather and godson overhear the lady, through paper-thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous session of lovemaking with an actor (Neil Flanagan). While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on a ruse. The guilty lovers, he will pre tend, had actually been rehearsing a play - which has still to be written...
...that they would have been retained had their political views been otherwise. I do not believe this political charge to be justified. The department acted on the basis of the same critieria which are applied in other cases. The question is rather whether being a "radical" should make a prima facie case for retention. I do not think so. In setting forth my views on the role which "radical economics" should play in the department, I make no pretence of speaking...