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...evening a fortnight ago a tall, slim, sandy-haired man in street clothes sat on a desk in the wings of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House and watched the Sadler's Wells Ballet performance of Apparitions. From time to time, when she wasn't on stage, prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn came over to talk to him. TIME's Chandler Thomas, having sat through five performances of different ballets out front, wanted to see how ballet looked from backstage. He was getting ready for this week's cover story on Miss Fonteyn...
...Paris, Mary Garden, 72, said that she would make a lecture tour in the U.S. this fall, her first trip back in 18 years. Her subjects: music, the opera, and singers. Said the onetime prima donna, whose hip-swinging versions of Thais and Salome still linger in the memories of old-time operagoers: "I will speak as I feel...
...Funnyman Milton Berle was getting no laughs out of Met Soprano Dorothy Kirsten. Cried the prima donna: "He hired a girl in a hideous blonde wig and passed her off as me. Then he played a screeching record . . . and had the girl mouth along with the words. The result was just awful . . . The image was most unattractive . . ." Dorothy even made threats to sue for "plenty . . . Imagine putting on that horrible-sounding mess and telling everybody I was doing it . . ." Said Milton, through his lawyers: "She is unfamiliar with the actual facts . . ." Then he began trying, still unsuccessfully at week...
Long-suffering Federal Judge Harold R. Medina spoke up as soon as the prosecutor sat down: the Government had presented such a strong prima facie case that he would hear only limited argument on defense motions. He added that an hour would probably be ample. The five defense attorneys scrambled to their feet and went into an outraged act which would have done credit to a pond full of Donald Ducks. They danced, shouted and demanded a week's time to prepare briefs. One attorney made 13 separate motions. Defendant Eugene Dennis (who is acting as his own attorney...
Born. To Vera Zorina (Brigitta Hartwig Lieberson), 32, Berlin-born Norwegian prima ballerina turned musicomedienne (I Married an Angel, Louisiana Purchase), and Goddard Lieberson, 38, vice president and member of the board of directors of Columbia Records, Inc.: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Jonathan Sears. Weight...