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Nevertheless, it looks now as if Tebaldi and not Callas will eventually occupy Milan's chicken coop. In a fit of fury at the accumulated grievances she felt she had suffered, Callas last spring fired off a statement that she and La Scala were through Tebaldi, operating on the somewhat confused principle that she did not want to "sing against anybody," refused to move in to take Callas' place. This season La Scala has neither one of them, but the betting is strong that Tebaldi will be back in Milan by next season. Recently, when Elsa Maxwell suggested...
Recently, Tebaldi has allowed herself a few of the luxuries expected of a full-fledged diva. She has remodeled a ten-room apartment in Milan and crammed it with antiques she picked up all over the world. She travels now with a maid, a secretary and 30 pieces of luggage, into which she crams 70 pairs of shoes, 50 dresses and five mink coats. She indulges herself in jewelry-necklaces, fat rings, pearl and diamond earrings-and she plans to buy a big American...
Cesare Siepi, 34, bass. Born in Milan, Siepi started out to be a boxer, switched to singing during the war, was brought to the U.S. by the Met's Bing. An excellent actor, he is particularly effective in the roles of such sorrowing old men as Boris and Don Carlo's Philip II, has also won acclaim for his Don Giovanni and The Barber's Basilio. His resonant, warm bass and trim good looks make him the leading contender for Ezio Pizza's place...
...patient was dead"), then denied that he had received "un soldo" for his pains, then resigned his post. The College of Cardinals banned him from the Vatican. As the storm of censure mounted, the greatest cry was appropriately against the money-hungry doctor rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps, the most startling question raised by the whole furor: "How could Pius XII entrust his health for so many years...
Giovanni Battista Montini, 61, Archbishop of Milan, is one of the ablest men in the church, served under Pius XII as pro-Secretary of State for ten years. Shifted from the Vatican to the Milan diocese in 1954, he still wears no red hat; not for almost 600 years has a noncardinal been chosen...