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...many a most enviable woman, believes that she has an "appalling" place in history. This account of how she got there, according to her loyal publishers, was written by her alone, but ghostly fingers may nevertheless be detected at work with the familiar cheesecloth. The life of Wallis Warfield of Baltimore is well-known-perhaps too well. But this retelling carries the great interest of being her own first official version of how she played finders-keepers, losers-weepers with a king and his kingdom...
...make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." The duchess, lamented Ghost Amory, tried to impose worrisome conditions of servitude upon him. He was supposed to prove that 1) B. (for Bessie) Wallis Warfield was born "on the right side of the tracks" in Baltimore, 2) she and the duke are "happy and busy people," 3) Britain's royal family and common folks treated her "very meanly" in disallowing her the title of Her Royal Highness. Said Amory: "I told the duchess I didn't mind omitting facts, but . . . I wouldn't distort them...
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...most a dozen roles in the standard repertory are usually considered "suitable" for female Negro singers. After a rousing debut in a Juilliard production of Falstaff, Soprano Price won the lead in the world-traveling revival of Porgy and Bess. (She later married her leading man, Baritone William Warfield...
Other notable new records: Debussy and Ravel Quartets, played by the Budapest String Quartet (Columbia); Deep River and other songs, sung by William Warfield (Columbia); Smetana's symphonic cycle, My Fatherland, played by the Chicago Symphony conducted by Rafael Kubelik (Mercury, 2 LPs); Twelve Spanish Dances by Granados, played by Pianist José Echániz (Westminster...