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MARIA CALLAS 1-1-1
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The controversial and tempermental songstress Maria Callas performs in the opera in Dallas "Medeaa ew sours after learning her 18-thousand dollar season contract with the Metropolitan Opera has been cancelled. SOUND ON FILM ABOUT 15 sees.
MED. WOMAN WALKS
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The soprano's performance receives a rousing approval from a capacity audience of 35-hundred at the State Fair Music hall. The Met's general manager Rudolph Bing accused Miss Callas of attempting to force a change in the repertoire called for in her contract and of backing up her demands with a display of her famed temperament. Bing'said she had done the same thing in Rome and San Francisco and the Met has had enough of it. Miss Callas implied that the feeling was mutual. The wife of an Italian industrialist, Miss Callas says she doesn't have