Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second act of La Bohème: the square outside the Café Momus, in Paris' Latin Quarter. A colorful crowd, self-conscious and unconvincingly hearty as most opera-players pretending to be real people, swarmed over the stage. The poet Rodolfo strolled in happily with his sweetheart Mimi, but his painter friend Marcello was in the dumps, and sang (in Italian): "Bring me an order of poison." He had just heard the jaunty voice of his faithless Musetta, who soon flounced in, all feathers and finery...
...Villa's headquarters, where a carpenter made a blue cross to put on his grave when he died. Pancho Villa himself told the painter that the lettering on the cross should read, "Lieut. Colonel Pedro Gomez." Two weeks later, far from dead and hoping to see his sweetheart, Gomez was railroading in a gondola car with some of Villa's dynamiters. One of them accidentally touched off a fuse and the car blew up. The only survivor: Gomez...
...Houston last December, when his second daughter Glennalee, 17, eloped with her young highschool sweetheart George Pontikes, the son of an immigrant Greek cobbler, Millionaire Glenn McCarthy flew into the classic fatherly rage. By last week, however, time and normal events had softened the blow, and photographers caught the terrible-tempered oilman in the classic pose of a new grandfather. Glennalee had presented him with his first granddaughter. Her name: Glennalee McCarthy Pontikes...
Last week Zerbee announced that the Navy had started buying an improved instrument, the Zerbee Celestial Fix Finder. A nightmare of gears and scales and dials, it looks something like the dream sweetheart of a mechanical monster. It has talent, however. When a navigator wants to find the position of his ship at night, he observes with a sextant the position of two stars. By setting dials and fiddling with scales, he feeds this information and a few other figures into the machine. Barring errors in observations, the machine tells him the position of the ship, accurate to one mile...
...could hardly keep from stomping out the rhythm with them. Standout scene: Azucena's duet with Manrico, her foster-son and the instrument of her revenge against the aristocratic Di Luna family. The ballet, like the opera, ended in a flood of blood, with Azucena, Manrico and his sweetheart dying and the wicked Count di Luna going mad. The curtain came down with Azucena triumphant in her revenge-and, by proxy, Ruth Page triumphant in hers. The work got twelve curtain calls...