Word: carlotta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round of ceremony began again. President Truman drove over to the National Palace for a formal welcome by President Aleman. At 7:30 he was back for a state dinner in the Comedor under the great crystal candelabra installed by Mexico's ill-fated Maximilian and Carlotta...
...Neill had no reason to worry about money. His plays had netted him some $2,000,000; he could hope for a steadier income only if he had also written the Bible and a cookbook. His third marriage, with lovely Actress Carlotta Monterey, who had played opposite Louis Wolheim in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (see cut), was an eminently happy one. After an all but mythically swift rise to fame, with 37 plays, he was still relatively young. In experience, he was a brilliant, confident professional, at the height of his hopes and powers...
...their prospects. They christened it Tao House. * In 1935, O'Neill began to block out his massive cycle of plays. Every day he worked from about 8 in the morning until about 1 :30, writing as a rule quite freely and surely, in his elegant, complex, microscopic hand. Carlotta, often with the help of a magnifying glass, typed up each day's work as it came along...
...that he had sold his spacious, white-walled "Tao House"-across the bay from San Francisco. "I have to go East on business, but this has nothing to do with the theater," said the playwright, who during his seven year seclusion at "Tao House" (with his third wife, exactress Carlotta Monterey) has been struggling against a recurring ailment to complete his cycle of seven plays: A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. No comment by O'Neill was reported on the news that a child was expected in August by his 18-year-old daughter Oona, dark-eyed fourth wife...
...leading roles are competently handled, but neither draw the attention that Carlotta Franzell attracts as Cindy Lou. Her clear soprano was applauded almost as vigorously as if she had been the lead at the Met. Luther Saxon, as Joe, plays the victim of Carmen's seductive charm with convincing sincerity, but Muriel Smith's singing falls definitely short of excellence...