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...Rome Opera, scene of Soprano Callas' celebrated walkout due to "lowering of the voice" (TIME, Jan. 13), the boards again groaned under the strain of artistic temperament. During a rehearsal of Verdi's Don Carlos, famed Bulgarian Basso Boris Christoff and Italian Tenor Franco Corelli craftily maneuvered to gain the coveted stage-center spot. By the time Act II's libretto called for Corelli to draw his sword in defiance of Christoff (who played Philip II, Don Carlos' father), both singers were ready to fight. They drew, and Verdi was forgotten as the prop swords swished...
...walkout during an operatic performance in Rome (TIME, Jan. 13), Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas was set down for the Rome opera season. The ban on Manhattan-born Singer Callas came from the implacable Rome opera authorities, who were heartily seconded by Rome's prefecture. Ostensible reason: the mere sight of Maria onstage again might incite Rome's already outraged opera fans to riot...
Diva Callas could scarcely have picked a worse evening to stage a walkout. Rome had not heard her for two years, while rumors floated about that her voice was going; for her return, she had chosen one of her outstanding roles, and one of the most challenging in the repertory. As Norma, the Druid priestess, Callas came before her audience looking strikingly handsome in flowing robes, her dark hair aglitter with silver leaves. Midway in the first act, when she launched into the opera's most famed aria, Casta Diva, the house was hushed in taut expectancy...
...group of motormen struck the New York subway system for the second time in 18 months today, in defiance of court orders. They threatened to press the walkout indefinitely...
...Virginia's former (1950 to 1954) Governor John S. Battle, 67, a resonant voice for political moderation in the Southern Democratic Party. Battle, who prevented a Southern walkout at the 1952 Democratic Convention, is a segregationist but not a violent racist, as governor made large strides in improving Virginia's Negro schools. He promises to represent the "strong Southern view," i.e., anti-integration, pro-law and order...