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Tribute to a People. Good as the new production was, it was the performance that made last week's Butterfly truly memorable. In her first Metropolitan appearance in the role, Italian Soprano Antonietta Stella, 28, made her Cio-Cio-San a wonderful complex of childish fever and womanly fire, effectively underplayed the bathetic frills the role is heir to. Her large, easily ranging voice shimmered and soared ecstatically, brought the house alive with a roar after her famous aria...
...Martin agreed in testimony before Capitol Hill's Joint Economic Committee that 1) the U.S. economy is basically healthy and can be expected to recover its zip without drastic Government medication, and 2) strong hypodermics, such as a deficit-producing tax cut, might do harm by stimulating inflation fever. Inflation, warned Chairman Martin, will be "one of the most crucial problems we have to face over the next couple of years." Said Anderson: "I can conceive of situations where tax reductions might appropriately be brought into play, [but] the present condition of the economy does not warrant such action...
Callas' own performance had the familiar virtues and faults: warmth and purity in the lower and middle registers, edginess and wobble in the upper ones. But she infused the character of Violetta with ardency, hectic gaiety and a dampened passion that flickered through the role like a wayward fever. Her deathbed agonies had the quiet poignancy and the ring of truth that so often evade lesser artists. All in all, Callas gave the Met its most exciting Traviata in years, and demonstrated again that she has lost none of the turbulent appeal that can magnetize an audience...
...lived alone in a Milan attic. Though her dress might be patched, elderly women neighbors noted that her underwear was always immaculate-and Giuseppina had a liking for pink underskirts. She was wearing one of these when, just after the Christmas holidays, Neighbor Astorria Alessi found her delirious with fever and pneumonia, arranged to get her into Milan's huge (2,274-bed) Niguarda Hospital...