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...could be taken from any U.S. school or college roster-Paine, Prentice, Chrysler,Cushing, Welch. Their fathers were businessmen, and about half could be found in the Social Register. Where were they going? To a coming out party at Britain's ancient Blenheim Palace for an American friend, Serena Russell, who also happens to be the granddaughter of the tenth Duke of Marlborough...
...Serena is the daughter of Edwin F. Russell, 48, a newspaper executive from Elizabeth, N.J., who met Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, during the war, when he was in the U.S. Navy and she was working as a lathe assistant. Since then, Russell has moved up in the publishing empire run by the son of a Russian immigrant, Sam Newhouse, who recently made him publisher of Vogue...
RENATA TEBALDI, 39, is also singing less than she did several years ago, although not entirely by her own choice: when the Met announced that labor troubles last summer forced them to drop Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouweur, scheduled as a vehicle for Tebaldi, Italy's diva serena canceled her contract for the season. In the repertory she calls her own (Otello, Boheme, Tosca, Forza del Destino, Butterfly, Andrea Chenier) she still cannot be challenged for sheer lovely sound-a sound that when she is in proper form seems to lie in the center of the voice, with...
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...