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...similar in the movies. From Rome's Cinecitta to Hollywood, yesteryear's Latin and Anglo-Saxon actresses are being challenged by such talented Teutons as Romy Schneider, Elke Sommer, Nadja Tiller and Senta Berger. Eddie Fisher rebounded from Liz with the help of a Hamburger-pert, blonde Renata Boeck. Tony Curtis left Janet Leigh for dark, Munich-born Christine Kaufmann...
...SINGERS. Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson and Leontyne Price had only twelve listings among them three years ago; now they have 53, one less than Renata Tebaldi has all to herself. Tebaldi is still the most recorded soprano, but Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is gaining fast and will soon pass her. Maria Callas, who has not done much singing from opera house stages in the past three years, has had eight new recordings issued anyway. Rudolf Schock made the biggest gain among tenors (14 to 38), but it must give him an edgy feeling to see that Enrico Caruso, silent these many years...
...loyal fans of Soprano Renata Tebaldi had a hard time in recent years detecting the girlish silhouette of Mimi, say, or Leonora beneath their favorite's puffed-up form. Unlike her archrival Callas. who had the theatrical canniness to diet to a sleek whisper of her former self, Tebaldi apparently felt that it was sufficient for a soprano simply to trundle on stage and sing...
That brings me, unfortunately, to the great problem of Sunday night's performance. Tacko Tsukamoto is the prettiest Butterfly I have ever seen: she is slim, graceful, and really looks "just fifteen." All this is infinitely preferable to Renata Tebaldi lumbering about the stage in yards of flowered silk, but vocally, Miss Tsukamoto provided only the barest outlines of any kind of Butterfly at all. Her pleasant voice was often completely inaudible in low-lying or pianissimo passages, and only occasionally did she summon anything like the power necessary for Butterfly's big moments. A soprano who can sing...
...silver medal, for a group of poems (honorable mention went to Charles Lowry '65, for a group of poems); aid the Susan Anthony Potter comparative literature prize, to Peter P. Brooks 2G, income from the fund, for thesis entitled "The Rest is Silence: Hamlet as Decadent" (second prize to Renata Addler 2G, for thesis entitled "The problem of Poetic Opacity in Translating 'Die Aufzeichnungen Des Malte Laurids Briggs...