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Tours. The virtuosos, the prima donnas, the chamber-music ensembles and practically any other type of musical group worth mentioning packed their bags for tours to big cities and small towns. There was scarcely a well-known musician or musical group, American or European, that was not set to take off across the land. They could be ticked off right down the alphabet from A to Z (with the exception of X, since Greek Pianist Anna Xydis is not touring the U.S. this season): Contralto Marian Anderson, the Budapest String Quartet, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Soprano Lisa Delia Casa, Violinist Mischa...
...good. Thus, in Copenhagen Season, the very strength of a soldier's love loses him the prize he wants; in A Country Tale, a proud nobleman is forced to his knees at the foot of a murderer who mysteriously may be his alter ego; in Echoes, a prima donna finds her lost voice only to lose all hope of using it. The characters are large, heroic figures and they are brought to earth with a resounding crash. Such men and women are rare in contemporary fiction; the art to make them live vitally -as Author Dinesen does-is rarer...
...love, but for them I felt something more than friendship. Maybe it was really and truly love! If I were 40 years younger. . ." Then, snapping that she "hates gossip," Elsa bade arivederci to all and steamed up to Milan. There she fell into the trem ulous arms of volcanic Prima Donna Maria Meneghini Callas, last year's enemy, this year's bosom pal. Of Maria: "A fascinating creature . . . the greatest singing actress of our time...
Arriving in Manhattan to dance the title role in NBC-TV's go-minute spectacular, Cinderella, Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), announced that on TV "you have to keep your mind skinned" because TV cameras are all over (and a stage audience is just out front). Though Dancer Fonteyn likes to perform on TV, she does not like to look at it: "Wastes too much time. It's paralyzing...
...Songstress Teresa Brewer; the "ripe, sultry and suggestive" mouth of Anita Ekberg; the "silky and soft" hair of Sophia Loren; the "firm, yet round and petite" chin of Natalie Wood; the "slender, yet strong" neck of Canada's Skater Barbara Ann Scott; the "sulky, passionate" eyebrows of Prima Donna Maria Callas; the "delicate and small" ears of New Jersey's First Lady Helen Stevenson Meyner because "they invite you to whisper your innermost secrets into them...