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...talks roused little interest at the time, and were soon overshadowed by the melodrama of Edward's abdication in order to marry "the woman I love''-the twice-divorced American socialite, Wallis Warfield Simpson. Since then, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, growing paler and frailer with the passage of years, have drifted from Portugal to the West Indies, from Manhattan to Paris. Their pastimes have been the trifling ones of showing up at balls, growing roses...
...check and it was true, they would look foolish; if they checked too hard on an obvious phony, they were running the risk of smearing the President. British newsmen, perhaps recalling how they had been criticized for suppressing the news about Edward VIII's romance with Wallis Warfield Simpson, now privately chided the U.S. press for staying silent. Last Sept. 2, recognition in a mass U.S. publication was given for the first time to the fact that the question even existed. The Sunday supplement Parade (circ. 10 million) published a reader's letter asking about the truth...
...years Leontyne Price sang "at least four Besses a week"-on Broadway, on the road and in Europe. She also married her Porgy, Baritone William Warfield, in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, with one of the Chisholm daughters attending and with six members of the cast as bridesmaids. Married for 8^ years, Leontyne and Warfield are kept apart most of the time by the demands of their careers...
...Ohio, Leontyne discovered she had a voice, went on to Juilliard, where Critic-Composer Virgil Thomson heard her and asked her to appear in his opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. From there she joined the touring revival of Porgy and Bess and married her leading man, Baritone William Warfield...
...purists," Beecham offers a thunderously 19th century-styled orchestration-lush, richly colored, and full of dramatic contrasts. Soloists and chorus are uniformly fine, but the recording is not for listeners who take their Handel neat. Eugene Ormandy offers a severely cut reading (Eileen Farrell, Martha Lipton, Davis Cunningham, William Warfield; the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Columbia, 2 LPs, mono and stereo). The performance indulges in fewer pyrotechnics, is chiefly memorable for the truly superb singing of Soprano Farrell...