Singer Stevens Teaches Carmen Voice Inflection
Rise Stevens discusses how Carmen should sound using inflection and vocal control. She notes women’s speaking voices can seem high pitched and suggests varying volume to convey anger or tenderness, drawing on her Met Opera Carmen recording experience.
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Singer
Ugly
Rise Stevens
Hlizsbeth Toomey
OIP
New York
Rise’ Stevens
Bizet
Metropolitan Opere
Hay
RCA Victor
Carmen
Met
Barclay On Bridge Squeezes and Unusual Situations
In a detailed bridge analysis Barclay examines squeezes in standard lineups and rare cases where a squeeze works while defensive cards remain. The hands feature East West vulnerable with North’s seeded double and South’s defense, highlighting timing, plays, discards, and the final club and diamond endgame as the squeeze secures two of the last three tricks.
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Wes Incky
North
South
West
Heart
Dummy
East
Dumway
Jap Actress Learns Hollywood Kissing, Noses Highlight Lesson
Shirley Yamaguchi flew from Japan to Hollywood to study American kissing for film in East is East. She notes American kisses differ by nose size and facial structure, planning further scenes back home. She recalls Don Taylor instructed kissing four times as they prepared for the scene.
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Aline
Olby
Hollywood
Shirley Yamaguchi
Shirley
Movietown
New York
Don Taylor
Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Don
America
Japan
Prison Song Petition and Peruvian Editor Fined
Prisoners at a Dutch jail petitioned the warden to modify the tune played by a state museum carillon. In Lima, Leonidas Rivera, editor of a Peruvian humor weekly, was fined 355 dollars and given four months in prison for a Life Magazine reprint seen as offensive to Argentine President Juan Peron and his wife, straining Peru Argentina relations.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Hollard
Lima
Peru
Leonidas Rivere
Argentina
Life Magazine
Eva. Peron
Rivera
Juan DB. Peron
Pakistan Fears Indian Invasion Scheduled
In Karachi, Pakistan, authorities called up four national guard battalions and ordered emergency civil defense measures amid fears of an Indian invasion. The population prayed for peace on Defense Day as shops closed for the day’s meetings.
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Karachi
Pakistan
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