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...favorite songs on the album are All My Trials, one of Miss Baez's first songs, and Donna Donna, a rather new one. Musicologists say that All My Trials originated years ago in the South, but it was rediscovered in the Bahamas. Miss Baez sings the lullaby with amazing warmth and tenderness. Fred Hellerman (of the Weavers) backs up her guitar, as he does on five other songs...
Regrettably, two sub-plots constantly break through the surface. One tells of the love of Khovansky's weak-willed son Andrei for Emma and his ex-fiance's enduring passion for him. Martha, his ex-betrothed, interrupts him with a persistence equalled only by that of Donna Elvira...
...clubs supply homeowners with good repairmen around the clock, guarantee their work. When Hurricane Donna swept across Long Island's Nassau County last week, more than a thousand homeowners with flooded basements, leaking roofs and fallen trees put in urgent calls to Allied Homeowners' Association of Roslyn, one of the biggest and most bustling of the U.S. home-repair clubs. The crews of some 30 Allied contractors, from plumbers and tree surgeons to swimming-pool pumpers, went right to work. In recent weeks, Allied also supplied a cotton candymaker for a children's party, searched...
...change in ten seconds. In the 40-odd rooms where actors and singers once lived while the royal family was in residence at Drottningholm, the original hand-painted wallpaper survives-as does a wicked caricature of a needle-nosed French ballet master penciled on the wall of the prima. donna's dressing room. A gold-painted harpsichord, discovered under the stage and now used by the orchestra, is considered one of the 18th century's best...
...managing artists, I never quite got used to the sharp little men who tell me where Madame is to be booked, what fee she is to be paid, who is to sing with her and what the critics will have to write. Somewhere in the brain of every prima donna there is a deep craving for security and comfort, linked with fear of old age. This causes her to pick a man who is prepared to act as a permanent wet nurse...