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'Chicago DaUf Cribunt un Glasses ltd Ur ama in tne I lf omen They re Better Scientifically, Glamorise the Summer Scene Monday, July 27, 1959 Part 2-Page 3 BY ELEANOR ANGLE EUROPOn the Aisle Fldrentine 'Nabucco' in the Boboli 1 V-3 I '11 on a Sultry Tuscan Night BY CLAUDIA CASSIDY FLORENCE, ITALY An imposing "Nabucco ended the 22nd Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, handsomely network of lines that no amount of regret or of wrinkle creams can erase. Necessity tor shielding the eyes from the sun has mothered remarkable fashion inventiveness. Smart sun glasses are close to the head of the imaginative parade of accessories for summer or southern chic. Their shape flatters, intrigues, bespeaks one's own fashion flair. Their color-extended this season from frames to cases adds spice.

And their gentle guardianship adds up to eyeand beauty durability. The novel frames and sun glasses pictured here, most of them imports from France, are from Aimer Coe Co. REMEMBER when sun glasses were just smoked glasses? That's not so long ago; but in-terms of scientific improvement, of design, and of feminine expression of individuality it seems like a thousand years. Tho these protectives for eyes have changed so dramatically, the basic reasons for their existence remain the same. Glare fatigues eyes, lowers their efficiency to the point oi hazard, and steps up the tendency to squint.

For a woman, this last point is a telling one; of all unfortunate facial mannerisms squinting is the most aging. It literally paves the forehead and the area around the eyes with a palace, with a sultry moon contributing to the lighting effects, and a Doney buffet-bar assuaging hunger and thirst as the old Verdi opera ran on into the night. It was an evening full of Lyric implications, conducted by Bruno Bartoletti, with Ettore Bastianini at his best as Nabucco, which is so much easier to spell than Nebuchadnezzar, L. a ftf ana wiin iviargnerna noDeru, calls for a formidable female who can stand still and pour the Chicago Theater of the Air girl recently engaged by Carol Fox for the 1959 sea son, as Abigaille. Not yet out torrents of tone.

Roberti, essentially miscast as a lirico spinto in an outsize dramatic role, did a great deal of brilliant singing, and neer once booked in America, as far as I know, but worth booking, took the easy way our, I look forward to hearing her at are the; good tenor, Gastone Limarilli, and the brilliant young bass, Paolo Washing home. I ton. I have not been an outstanding success at "Nabucco," either here or a few years ago at Verona, where the arena shot the spectacular works and the Abigaille was the Amazonian Anita Cerquetti in her prime. It was crucial in Verdi's career, fcr it was his turning point from despair to triumph. But In the ripe Tuscan Jtnht the production designed by Orlando di Collalto adoitud the huge stage and spread into the gardens above, so that it seemed to stretch into a dusky infinity the mellow distance from which the Maggio, orchestra sounded, as orchestras invariably sound when they play without the reflecting resonance of an orchestra pit.

It is the sane way with applause without an auditorium even the lustier kind fades off into the night. Still, indoors is unthinkable while the the apricots, the melons, the figs, the wine, and the people turn rosy in the sun. We try one concert in the big salon of the it has a majestic, monotony for all its massive arias and the haunting chorus of the enchained Israelites, "Va pensiero sull'ali a Elongated lenses, kindly to contour, set In black plastie which Toscanini chose for the ft Jjr I 41 Scala chorus to sing at Verdi's grave. In terms of spirited trimmed with gold to make a fish design. Case is white canvas striped in black leather, with a green stone for the simulated fish's eye.

Verdi from the early, lesser known operas, it does not rival the Maggio's earlier pro Palazzo Vecchio, which had duction of "The Battle of Legnano." If Bastianini disagrees, he is not much of an actor and been so comfortable in May, and admit defeat at intermission. The Maggio orchestra with Mario Rossini conducting plays Bach, Caldara, Vivaldi, Gemianini, Refice, an interesting" program. But be he knows so little about make up that the mezzo Myriam Pirazziini who plays his tween the heat and the acous daughter might more easily be his mother. But the role of the Babylonian king falls so wonderfully into his voice tics the whole thing is a blur. Not so Florence, as wonderful a city as the world can offer.

Luckily for us, unex On top these black plastic frames are inset with a double row of rhinestones. A tingle row outlines the lower edge of the len s. This also comes in white. that you spend the evening being reminded that it is, for sheer beauty of sound, one of the great voices of our. time.

You can't expect a singer to care about more than that. The same thing is true of pected at the height of the season, the Savoy has just opened its new fifth floor, and we are first occupants of an air conditioned room. Still, we open the windows in the cool night air to hear the Play Begins in National Washington as the high priest Zacharias. The music displays bells of Giotto's tower and the lusty soprano in the' him like a resonant cave. His voice is big and full, rich in square perversely, we miss Bridge Meet the familiar sounds.

And even in this short stay I learn something. At Gucci's they tell me never to clean a imaginative shadows. The tenor is an afterthought, so you have to know Limarilli from other operas to realize his worth. Roberti, no Amazon, is outweighed by the monumental demands made on Abigaille, but there is not a doubt in the world that she is a Lyric acquisition. fine leather bag with anything but cold water.

That is easier to manage than the She Is a slender, attractive i. severe instructions of Bellini the silversmith, who has always exhorted me never to, clean his silver with anything but a mixture half ammonia, half wood alcohol. Ask for that at home and you feel certain the horrified mixer is going to call the police to report Arsenic and Old Lace aberrations. girl with a beautiful young voice which she handles with bravura and an ingrained sense of style. It is no reflec These glasses are literally snaky in black plastic set with rhinestones that change color in the light and a gold brocade rope design to heighten the reptile motif.

Cast is pink silk sheathed lace and piped in silver cord. From France. tion whatever on her that the BY CHARLES GOREN fCfckaso TrlbaM Bridgt Columnist Midwestern and eastern pairs shared the lead as a record 204 pairs began play here Sunday night in the American Contract Bridge league's life master's pair championships at the Hilton hotel. The leaders, each with 407 points, were David Carter of St. Louis, and John Hubbell of Kansas City; and Mrs.

W. J. Albersheim of Waban, and J. J. Foreacre of East Orange, N.

J. In third place with 406 points, were Charles Solomon of Philadelphia, and Harry Fishbein of New York. Fourth place was held by Arthur Glatt, Lincolnwood, and Albert Weiss, Chicago, 401. Fifth were Morris Frier, and David Clarren.both of Minneapolis, with 400. In the senior master's pairs, first round leaders were Maggio tried to get Eileen Farrell to learn the roll she It's called "Lady Fingers," a frame of flesh tinted plastic with small rhinestone fingers fanning around the lens.

The simulated nails are red rhinestones. Jacob Weinberg, Marion, Dianne Wilkinson Becomes Engaged to Walker Kennedy Jr. (Jam and Mrs. Mary Findelar, Battle Creek, 401: William A and Robert Bambrick, both of BY ELEANOR PAGE Ottawa, 397; and Vic Huebner, Chicago, and Jerry K. Burns, Madison, and A romance which began on the Stanford university rammis was HicrlnspH at a cocktail party Sunday in Robert Bratcher and Robert Jerles, both of Columbus, The Harold F.

Enrights will give a reception in the Saddle and Cycle club Wednesday for their daughter, Joyce, and her bridegroom, Francis Donald Mango who were married in June in the Church of Saint Brigid, San Francisco. Young Mr. Mango, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mango of Mountain View, and his noon recipe and kitchen shower.

Flash to Madonna Center associates: The outdoor roof garden atop the Lake Shore club will be the setting for your "just for fun" cocktail dance from 6 to 8 p. m. Tuesday not the Chicago Yacht club at Belmont harbor as previously announced. 1 391. Careful dummy play landed an aggressive four heart con "-f imm the Northfield home of Mr.

and Mrs. Lucian B. Wilkinson. They announced the engagement of their daughter, Dianne, to Walker Kennedy Jr. His parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Kennedy of Salt Lake City; tract for Leland Ferer of Mi ami, a member of the def end-iin mixed team. The bidding was somewhat unorthodox but Ferer, in the South, and Mrs. Dennis fhe Menace L. J.

Goldstein, in the North, bride will live in Palo Alto, Cal. Ridge farm board members have chalked up "sold out" for their benefit performance Monday night of Louis Armstrong's Jazz in the Round at Tenthouse theater, Highland park. Powell-Galey The John R. Powells of Los Angeles have announced the engagement of their daughter, Georgia Rae, to Frank Russell Galey, son of Mrs. Straud B.

Galey of La Jolla, formerly of Winnetka, and the late Mr. Galey. The wedding will take place Aug. 22 in the Powell home, and Mr. Galey and his bride will live Los Angeles while he continued his studies in zoology at the University of California graduate school.

Both Mr. Galey and his fiancee are graduates of the university. use style wherein two over one responses are not taken lightly. 1 NORTH AK8652 A6 A52 A42 I Elm street and Brewster Conant of Chicago and Acton, will takeseveral of their friends to Peoria, 111., for the ceremony Aug. 22.

Their engagement just has been announced by her parents, the Robert Strehlows, of Peoria. Miss Strehlow, member of the Chicago Junior League, was graduated from Scripps college, Claremont, and has been living here three years. Mr. Conant, who is in business here, was graduated from Phillips Andover academy, the Colorado School of Mines, and Northwestern university. He is the son of Mrs.

Augustine Bradford Conant of Chestnut Hill, and the late Mr. Conant. The Party Line Mrs. Walter Krafft's Lakeside farm country home near Genoa City, be the setting for two parties feting her daughter, Miss Virginia Krafft, who is to become the bride of Francis Edward Dore Sept. 5.

Mrs. Harold Jenson of Chicago will entertain Monday at the farm at a supper and linen shower, and Mrs. Clark Blinks of Lombard, the prospective bride's aunt, will be hostess Aug. 7 at an after- ONE of the more traditional and less attractive local tourist sights are the city's "clochards" slang for "sky dwellers" Skid Row characters clutching the inevitable bottle of red wine and usually stretched out on Paris sidewalks. The live and let live attitude of the "authorities leaves theri unmolested except for the supreme indignation occasional arrest to be fed, bathed and fumigated.

As most of them have money from intermittent work rag picking or carrying crates in the central market, and some are even wealthy including a retired colonel and a former poet who recently came into a $30,000 legacy, they cannot be sentenced for vagrancy. Now a new bill before parliament proposes to make living on the public way an offense and if it becomes law, Paris tourists might soon lose one of the less savory subjects for their candid cameras. WEST EAST A AQ93 VK97 KQJ9 53 A 10 7 4 V42 10 8 3 J10 9 8 can I hide Joey? If His mother wants to give him a bath!" Sf Here and There Miss Dianne Wilkinson Glen view Studio Pboto Utah, were not here for the SOUTH A none VQJ10853 764 KQ76 The bidding: North East South 1 A Pass 1 NT Pass Double 3 4 Pass Pass engagement party, but the family was represented by Mrs. William C. Appleton of West Chester, will be here in August to visit her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles W. Bra-shears Betsey Appleton of Winnetka, and to greet her the prospective bridegroom's West Pass Pass uncles and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gentles of Win- Goren, who is competing in the tournament as a life master ponders his next move Sunday.

Lewis Baraett, Iowa City, and A. Jansen, of Cedar Rapids, with 436. Other leaders were Moe Rubenfeld and Travers Le Gros, both of New York, with 428; Mrs. Pass netka, and the Henry W. Ken new granddaughter Katherine When the bidding appar nedys of Chicago.

Conant-Strehlow Loraine Brashears. The baby, Mr. and Mrs. Brashears' first child, will be christened during Mrs. Appleton'i visit.

ently was about to die at one no trump, East doubled to Continued on page 6, coL 6 The marriage of Miss Eliza 7 beth Mann Strehlow of East i.