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...moneymaking rides that most carnies consider the backbone of their show. The crowd-pulling mittcamps (palm-reading and pocket-picking gypsies) were gone. The gypsies had pinched some hogs from farmers in the last town, and the Gratz fuzz (cops) had sent them packing. Billed simply as "Stella," for its leading stripper, the girlie show was doing all right-neither rain nor dark of night, only the mark's initial embarrassment, ever slows its ticket sales. But even when the sun came out to dry the midway, the carnies at Gratz knew that it was time to strike their...
...Stella, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, 63, founder of the Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defense...
...Seeking his fortune in movies after the war, he clicked in Italy, where Henry King took him to be Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister. It whisked him to stardom, sent him up the matinee-idol trail (Lady Windermere's Fan, Romola, Stella Dallas) that culminated in Bean Geste. Entering talkies as Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became as crisp and negotiable as a sterling note. His best-known films followed in the late '30s and early '40s-A Tale of Two Cities, Lost...
Tribute to a People. Good as the new production was, it was the performance that made last week's Butterfly truly memorable. In her first Metropolitan appearance in the role, Italian Soprano Antonietta Stella, 28, made her Cio-Cio-San a wonderful complex of childish fever and womanly fire, effectively underplayed the bathetic frills the role is heir to. Her large, easily ranging voice shimmered and soared ecstatically, brought the house alive with a roar after her famous aria...
...workers, betrayed by his bosses, driven out of his senses by the sight of his wife huddled in the rocking chair she has not left for almost 20 years, Stanislaw drinks himself blind. In a wild rage against man and God, he fulfills his obsession. That incestuous obsession concerns Stella-and, by the story's end, it explains her desperate hop into the hearse...