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...opera stars get invited to sing at Milan's La Scala, but last week Risë Stevens became the first ever to create a new role in the proud old house...
...performance of Samson and Delilah in Miami, Soprano Risë Stevens' breathtaking Delilah prompted enthusiastic operagoers to rush to the lobby during intermission and rack up a new house record for the sale of binoculars...
...long time to learn that free love is more expensive than any other kind") or setting readers straight on Nietzsche ("No great writer ever wrote more nonsense . . and his penalty has been that the nonsense alone is quoted, while his valuable insights have been quite overlooked"). When Har ris objected to "mass-produced" college teaching, eight university presidents answered him. A year and a half ago, when the News asked its readers how they liked Harris, more than 2,000 letters poured in in a few days, with verdicts ranging from "He's a conceited ass" to "Keep...
...audiences took the whole experiment in better part. They admired the well-timed camera work and the sense of almost being on the stage. In the closeups, they saw Singers Risë Stevens and Richard Tucker in more detail than any spectators at the Met were seeing them. In general, they seemed to share the illusion of the opera house, and burst into applause after the arias. Most of them forgave first-try mistakes...
...life in Manhattan is an exacting round of lessons, rehearsals, fittings and photographs. She conscientiously answers her mail, and seldom" fails to get off a cheery quarterly letter to the Princess Patter, a mimeographed magazine published by her teen-age fan club (Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Risë Stevens, Jan Peerce are honorary members...