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...opera at Milan's La Scala last week was Verdi's Battle of Legnano, and the principals bore glittering reputations -Soprano Antonietta Stella, Tenor Franco Corelli. But as anxious to please as either of them were the two men posted on either side of the first gallery (the fifth tier). Antonio Carrara, 33, and Carmelo Alabisio, 76, can lay claim to being opera's most successful dispensers of professional applause...
...amateur fans who applaud for love of music, not money, but who have little knowledge of opera. When he spots amateurs about to start a demonstration, Carrara musters a detachment of claqueurs to drown them out. When Maria Callas sang in Poliuto (TIME, Dec. 19, 1960), a group of Stella's fans booed Callas, were drowned out by the claque and became so enraged that they started a slugging match that sent two combatants to jail. Although the La Scala claque never shouts at or boos a performer, some claques do; at the Teatro Regio in Parma, the local...
...York, where he found even more boredom working as a sandhog on the new tube of the Lincoln Tunnel. Shifting to show business, he played tinkly-tonk cocktail-hour piano in a bin on 58th Street, saved enough money to take a six months' course at Stella Adler's acting school. Scoring minor successes on television (Studio One, Playhouse 90), he eventually won a screen test with Director Joshua Logan, who asked him to demonstrate his kissing talents, using Actress Jane Fonda as a prop. Beatty fastened himself to her like a hyperthyroid lamprey, ignoring cries...
...nothing is not the failure but rather the point of the play, which suffers in its London production from the heavy approach of Director Frank Corsaro. who emphasizes the sinister at the expense of the humorously macabre. In her first stage appearance after a dozen years of teaching, Stella Adler didn't seem quite ready for Madame Rosepettle. However, the Times conceded that the play was "hilarious," and the Daily Mail said of Kopit: "He writes like an angel or, to be more precise, like a mischievous cherub who has just had a highly diverting season in hell...
...joint fief over Monticello's doom-prone citizens, regard it with loyal affection: it is the mythical locale of TV's most merciless soap opera. The Edge of Night, the greatest hypnotic to appear since the video tube nudged the U.S. housewife away from radio's Stella Dallas...