Word: serena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ruth Attaway, as Serena, provides one of the most moving and memorable moments in the film. She does not actually sing "My Man is Gone Now,'" but she acts the hell out of it, and frankly it is often hard to believe that she isn't singing, the voice fits her so well...
...Philadelphia's arena last fortnight, Wrestler Antonino ("Dropkick") Rocca, weighing in at 228 lbs., squared off against John ("Adonis") Valentine, weighing 234 lbs. More than two miles away, at the Academy of Music, famed Soprano Renata ('Diva Serena") Tebaldi stepped to the front of the stage and sang Ah, spietata from Handel's Amadigi. As the evening wore on, a suave, white-tied figure kept scurrying back and forth between the two programs: Aurelio ("Ray") Fabiani, promoter of both wrestling and music, was hard at work on both sides of show-business history...
...location of Santa Fe firmly fixed in his mind-he accepted an invitation to join the Santa Fe Opera's advisory committee-Rudi Bing had to cope not only with the Met opening but with a nightmare that made the Santa Fe tiff look peaceful. See MUSIC, Diva Serena...
...open the Met season. In the title role of Tosca, opposite Mario Del Monaco as Cavaradossi and George London as Scarpia, she looked statuesquely handsome in velvet gown and jeweled tiara, was more than ever the creature of low-banked passion whom an Italian colleague calls a "diva serena...
Divorced. Elliott Harold Paul, 65, bearded, portly onetime expatriate author (The Last Time I Saw Paris); by his fifth wife and former secretary, Serena ("Nancy") McMahon Paul, 39; after five years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...