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...even let his practicing slide; his mother periodically called him from Kilgore to urge him to practice, or called Manager Arthur Judd of Columbia Artists Management to tell him to get after Van. For a while he was informally engaged to a tall, lissome brunette from back home named Donna Sanders, who was studying voice at Juilliard, but they broke it off after a year when Van decided he was not yet ready to reconcile marriage with a career. Donna, who later won small singing roles on Broadway, where she married an actor, thinks Van did the right thing: "That...
...Donna é Mobile. In Ferrara, Italy, Romolo Bocchi turned in a petition naming him a candidate for the Senate in Italy's May elections, learned that it was not valid because 60 women signers had falsified their ages...
...sing several nights a week at the bar. There is no honky-tonk hanky-pank at the Bocce; the men, in white shirts and black string ties, and the women, in flowered skirts and modest blouses, sit stiffly on the tiny stage, waiting their turns to line out La donna è mobile or Un bel di. The audiences come to hear music, and they listen with attention, shush fiercely at loud-crowing pub crawlers...
...Massachusetts-born dramatic soprano, has become the Metropolitan's most highly publicized relief aria-pitcher in the year since she joined the company. Three times this season she substituted for ailing divas in starring roles (once, on three hours' notice and without rehearsal, she sang Donna Anna when Eleanor Steber fell ill), while maintaining her own schedule of Toscas, Leonoras and Aïdas. Unfortunately, there is more drama in her last-minute appearances offstage than on: her singing, often attractive enough, has little spark, often wins only polite applause. But she has unshatterable poise, knows...
...first U.S.-born Metropolitan Opera prima donna ever to sing in the U.S.S.R., Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom, came home with some wide-eyed observations about Soviet singers, recollections of a visit to a Kremlin museum, laurels from Moscow critics and audiences for wowing them with their sexiest Carmen ever. "We could learn from Russian musicians about colleague behavior," said Blanche without blanching visibly. "Tantrums and jealousy don't seem to exist in musical circles, and the tenors were so wonderfully flattering that they all forgot their lines in the love scenes...