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Divorced. By Yma Sumac, 35, deep-bosomed, lynx-eyed Peruvian singer with a four-octave voice: Moises Vivanco, 38, who, in spite of his infidelities and an eye-blacking free-for-all with her last month, will continue as her manager and arranger; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Angeles, Peruvian Songbird Yma Sumac, 35, exercising all the resources of her four-octave voice, starred in a choice bit of opera bouffe in three acts. Featured opposite her: her estranged husband, Moises Vivanco, 38, with a supporting cast of two Inca folk dancers, one confused harp player, three private eyes, one happy collie, a carload of cops. It began in January when Yma's husband lost a paternity suit brought by Yma's former secretary, and was declared the father of the secretary's twin girls. Yma sued for divorce. The action...
...long helped to keep the corset strings tight by writing music to fit the man-imposed limitation on man's voice. Mozart composed killing coloratura arias for his high-singing sisters-in-law, Josepha and Aloysia Weber; Giuseppe Colla supplied music for his wife-to-be, Agujari; Moises Vivanco supplies it .for his wife Yma Sumac. Jennifer Johnson is now looking for someone to write music for Jennifer Johnson...
...pier for an hour, then confined her to the New York City area pending a hearing this week. In tearful confusion, Yma wailed: "I didn't kill. I didn't rob. I didn't nothing. What?" Yma and her husband, Peruvian Composer Moises Vivanco (similarly treated when he returned to the U.S. last month), blamed the "professional jealousy" of Yma's rival warblers for hanging "some question of subversion" over both their heads. The immigration officials kept their silence...
Voice of Hollywood. In Lima in 1941, the late Grace Moore heard her, promised to launch her on a career in the U.S. But shortly after Yma got to Manhattan in 1947, the famed soprano was killed in a plane crash. With husband Moises Vivanco playing the guitar and cousin Cholita Rivero dancing ("The Inca Taky Trio"), Yma sang at a Pan American Union concert in Washington in 1948. Demanded the Times-Herald critic, after praising her to the skies: "What's the matter with...