Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nuts to Roy Roberts, the Star and the Citizens Country Club district party...
Amelita Galli-Curci, famed opera star of the '20s, turned up at the Met opening in Los Angeles, surprised a lot of people who had heard little of her for years. Still tiny (shoe size: 2½B) and bubbly at 58, she confided to an interviewer the secret of her durability as a star (1909-30): "I didn't force my voice. I had sense enough not to touch the capital, only the income . . ." For the past eleven years she has been living quietly in an ornate Los Angeles mansion with her husband, Singing Teacher Homer Samuels...
...Star of the evening was Cuban Ballerina Alicia Alonso, who only five years ago had to quit dancing because she was going blind (operated on three times, she lay flat on her back with eyes bandaged for a year, finally regained her sight). Alicia, the best of the younger classical dancers, had seldom done modern dance before. But, right after dancing the queen in Swan Lake, she returned to the stage as Lizzie, to sub for ailing Nora Kaye. Alicia, as much as Agnes, made Fall River Legend an opening-night success...
...this week's Science magazine Dr. D. ter Haar of Purdue University sums up the more recent theories. He rules out all theories based on a collision, or near-collision, between the sun and another star. A string of planets drawn out of the sun in this way could not have so large a part of the system's angular momentum. The recent theory of Harvard's Dr. Fred L. Whipple (that the sun and the planets were formed at the same time out of a cloud of mixed gas and smoke particles) is hardly better, says...
...Navy is holding its best man in reserve, their second hurler, Lee Rensberger, should provide plenty of trouble. And their outfield includes Bill Hawkins, erstwhile football star, and Ed Frahler, who bat three-four in the lineup and hoast fat averages...