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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1959
Ex-Ugly Duckling Will Sing in KC
Bv Carol Heller
"The feeling of being an ugly duckling melted away when I sang ..."
This is Maria Callas' explanation of why she likes to sing—and why she has become world famous for her tantrums and emotional scenes.
The opera singer dazzles her audiences with her graceful brunette beauty.
The audience that sees Maria Callas perform tomorrow night at her first appearance in Kansas City will never guess she was once regarded as an ugly duckling.
As a teenager Maria weighed more than 200 pounds. She was a brilliant student and ate voraciously as she studied. She wore glasses and felt awkward, fat and plain in contrast to her pretty sister, Jackie.
But at the age of 10 Maria was given voice and piano lessons, and soon she was described as "the girl with the golden voice."
Maria now says her feeling of being an ugly duckling melted away when she sang. This made her re-
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sentent of a world that would not accept her for herself, but only for the music she could offer.
Maria was born in 1923 in New York. Her parents had emigrated to the United States from Greece. She describes her childhood in Manhattan as a bitter one.
Because the singer felt fat and awkward, she developed an emotion of loneliness which has affected her entire life.
She felt that her mother favored the prettier sister, Jackie. This eventually brought an estrangement between Maria and her mother that grew sensationally acrimonious when Maria achieved fame.
Maria's mother (who now is employed in the New York jewelry shop of Mrs. Jolie Gabor, mother of the celebrated Gabor girls) claims that Maria as a child was not fat, awkward and plain.
Mrs. Callas said Maria was as pretty as Jackie and had no reason to feel inferior and embattled. She said that Maria's reserve was part of her character and not due to her physical appearance.
Her big chance came when she was asked by the Athens National Opera to replace an ill leading soprano in the opera, "La Tosca."
Before the curtain rose Maria overheard a man in the company remark, "That fat slob will never make it."
The Maria Callas of the future suddenly appeared—she flew at the man with shrieks, tore at his shirt and gave him a nose bleed.
Afterwards Maria gave Tosca all she had and won the praise of the critics. The stormy career of a prima donna had begun.
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