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...while Corelli's extracurricular antics-he punched a spectator he thought had insulted him, stabbed Basso Boris Christoff with a stage sword-drew attention away from his sizable gifts as a singer. His large, solid dramatic tenor is darker than most, has almost a baritone's quality; at his best Corelli uses it with an animal vitality and drive that leave no audience bored. In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage door, and there is every evidence that he may do for tenors what Ezio Pinza did for bassos. Says he: "I attract mostly young...
...midst of his people. Weeping peasant women tried to kiss his hand or foot; those who could not reach him ran to kiss his royal car instead. Driving away from the dark, muddy plain, the Shah could hear the peasants shouting after him: "May God keep your sword always sharpened!" "May God strike down your enemies...
...across the earth like the waves of the sea," a Joan of Arc named Daia the Prophetess rallied the Berbers of Algeria against an Arab invasion and briefly formed the scattered tribes into a nation. At the reputed age of 127, while still beautiful and still amorous, Daia died sword in hand on the field of battle...
...first lady of U.S. horseracing; following intestinal surgery; in Palm Beach. Daughter of Pioneer Auto Builder John F. Dodge, she shied away from high society to devote her energies to her Brookmeade Stables, won the track's richest laurels with thoroughbreds Cavalcade (1934 Kentucky Derby winner) and Sword Dancer (top money-earner of 1959), but rarely rode herself...
...Most notable is Romeo and Juliet. Curiously enough, it has been directed by a young Italian, Franco Zeffirelli, who also designed the superb, dusty-streets-and-bright-sunlight Veronese sets. Over the years, productions of the play have steadily stiffened and solidified; the blood has gone out of the sword battles, and even the most passionate of declamations have gradually become dry word arias in a static opera without music. Zeffirelli has changed that. His direction is fresh and fluid despite the inherent difficulties in a play that begins in the stars then plods to an absurd conclusion underground...