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TIME'S Jan. 21 People section refers to Maria Callas' impersonating Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut at a charity ball; if memory serves, beloved Queen Hatshepsut [1501 B.C.], as protection against retribution for being a female monarch, was herself forced to resort to disguise. Stone images exhibited in the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art depict her wearing a beard. It would be interesting to know whether Miss Callas' impersonation was authentic to this degree. M. L. PENNEY Chicago...
...show us Elsa Maxwell as Catherine? Correct this wrong by showing us how Callas looked as Hatshepsut...
...hearted partygiver, Elsa Maxwell, 73, bedecked with such garnish as one of the world's biggest rocks (a 337-k. sapphire) in her guise of Russia's Empress Catherine the Great. Also gone regal was Metropolitan Opera Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, playing her greatest nonsinging role as Hatshepsut, an 18th Dynasty Queen of Egypt. Prattled Columnist Maxwell just before the ball: "Maria and I, gentle as ewe lambs, will be side by side in the Parade of Empresses. What an amusing ending to one of my greatest 'feuds.' "* ··· A Paris court ruled that...
Tethmosis III quarreled with his stepmother Queen Hatshepsut over her doings in her temple at Dier el Bahri (Thebes). Angry Tethmosis took all the temple statues, smashed them to bits, threw the debris into a quarry pit, where diggers have found them and assembled some into the original shapes...