Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan apartment, Monaco's blooming Princess Grace, six months pregnant and 26 Ibs. heavier, toyed with tiny garments and confessed that too much spaghetti and noodles helped put her in her present distention. Grace and expectant Papa Rainier both hope to present Monaco with a boy, but have not yet settled on a name. Said Grace: "I love the name Henry, but the Prince doesn't . . ." Drawing on old wives' tales to support her anticipation, Grace wishfully explained: "They claim you have a boy if you carry to the front. It might be a boy. He kicks...
...energetic Met production, robust Tenor Mario del Monaco as Norma's lover sang loud enough to be heard from Gaul to Rome, and Mezzo-Soprano Fedora Barbieri, as Norma's rival, was adequate though often wobbly. Since she looks much the way Callas did before her celebrated slimming down, it was hard to see why the Roman governor would prefer her to Norma. But none of this mattered much with Callas on stage. As an actress, unlike most of her competitors, Callas radiates credibility even in the silliest situations. Her performance is not a mere recital with costumes...
With more than a wisp of misgiving, millionaire ex-Bricklayer John B. Kelly and his wife Margaret, parents of Monaco's Princess (High Society) Grace, settled uneasily into theater seats for the Philadelphia opening of a new musical, Happy Hunting. The show, attended by scads of the Kellys' neighboring Mainliners, was a benefit performance for Mrs. Kelly's charity, Philadelphia's Woman's Medical College. Soon, while others there tittered nervously, Jack and Margaret Kelly learned the worst: Happy Hunting not only satirized the wedding of Grace and Prince Rainier, but also used everybody...
Into the White House, amidst a week roiling with campaign screamings and baseball meemies, strolled serene highness in the persons of young-jowled Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco. All tokens pointed to continued good relations between the U.S. and the vestpocket principality, as President Eisenhower and the royal couple chatted easily of places they've all visited and people they've known-and fishing. Rummaging in his desk drawer for a gift for Rainier, Ike pulled out a velvet-swathed box, then suddenly changed his mind and instead handed the Prince a handsome leathercovered box with...
...Among them: Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Tenor Mario del Monaco, Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni...