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Dazzling Endurance. Her voice has flaws, as the critics eagerly pointed out. Notably, on opening night, she became shrill in the upper register. But in the low and middle registers she sang with flutelike purity, tender and yet sharply disciplined, and in the upper reaches-shrill or not-she flashed a swordlike power that is already legend. In one of the repertory's most strenuous roles-Prima Donna Lilli Lehmann called Norma tougher than all three Briinnhildes-the Callas voice rose from her slender frame with dazzling endurance. No doubt, other great operatic sopranos can coax out of their...
...week's TV heroines were mostly vintage Hollywood. On Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC) durable Cinemactress Constance Bennett sashayed nasally through a shrill domestic comedy called Onions in the Stew. Audrey Trotter was a voluptuous nuclear scientist in The Garsten Case on CBS's Climax! Blonde Virginia Bruce was dragged mercilessly through a bleak, attenuated version of Mildred Pierce on NBC's Lux Video Theater. The week's best drama, We Who Love Her, had Alexis Smith recover sufficiently from kleptomania to adopt her six-year-old orphaned niece on NBC's On Trial! Oscar-Winner...
...King dies, and several deep orchestral chords seem to roll a tombstone over his entire century. Then Louis XV is on the throne; his meeting with Pompadour is set off by a lilting love song. Music marks a new culture, as from the palace windows twang the pure, shrill notes of the harpsichord. Explains Narrator Boyer: "Grace succeeds grandeur...
...secret. For sight regained means Paradise Lost: an end to the antic freedom accorded Lovey by the town, and eviction from the cemetery's marble orchard which, blind, she has been allowed to make her private playground. Back to sight means back to schools and parties, and the shrill anonymity of being just another girl growing up in New Hoosic...
...traditional squabbling and shrill cries broke out among the also-rans after Iowa's blue-eyed Carol Morris. 20. yare-proportioned (36-25-36) daughter of an Ottumwa minister, was crowned Miss Universe in the annual measurement melee at Long Beach, Calif. What especially irked some of the other girls: Carol is the second U.S. contestant to take the title in the past three years. One of the more outspoken Latin beauties, miffed Miss Chile (36-24-36), tried her own hand at judging. Meeowed she: "Miss Germany-second-is top-heavy ("40"-22-34). Miss Sweden-third-could...