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...insisted that Maria was hanging on to Manuel's last music because she and German were quarreling about minor details of Manuel's will. The more poetic theory: just before his death, Manuel had told Maria that the role of God in La Atlantida must be sung by one who was absolutely pure in heart and María, now a wrinkled, white-haired 62, felt that there is no such man in the world today...
...news that 1) two Soviet aviators had flown a stolen Russian plane to Linz, Austria, and taken refuge with U.S. forces there, and 2) that each had voiced a desire to see, not Hollywood or the Statue of Liberty, but the Commonwealth of Virginia. They had heard its glories sung on a Voice of America broadcast beamed to the U.S.S.R...
...Frances Louise Butler died, leaving in her hotel room a hoard of $300,000 in Government bonds wrapped up in old newspapers, and a "small fortune" in diamonds, rubies and pearls in a sugar sack. A man who came to the funeral remembered one thing about her: she had sung Oh Promise Me at the bier of President McKinley...
...connoisseurs of the theatrical arts and readers of time magazine already know, Cole Porter has written the songs for a new show known as "Kiss Mc, Kate." Among those songs is one called "Another Op'nin', Another Show." It is sung by a group of actors who are about to try out a production of "The Taming of the Shrew," in Baltimore, of all places...
Composer-Lyricist Porter is a loyal patron of his own art because, after writing the songs for 22 shows and nine movies, he is still just a little stagestruck. He also combines genuine modesty about his work with an amateur's enthusiasm for hearing it played and sung by first-rate professionals. At the opening performance of Kiss Me, Kate four weeks ago, he turned up in evening dress and settled himself happily down front in the midst of his large, glittering party. He was the picture of relaxed enjoyment, and a sight to amaze his fellow composers...