playwright Silveira Sampaio.
22nd January 1956 - Mary Wynne is told about a running-competion among waiters of Sao Paulo's restaurants & night clubs on Rua Barão de Itapetininga.
5 February 1956 - J.Maia & Max Nune's 'Carnaval no Catete' a 2-act musical revue with Spina, Theo Braga, Lurdinha Bitencourt and Trio de Ouro.
12 February 1956 - Maria Della Costa stars in Garcia Lorca's 'A casa de Bernarda Alba'; at Teatro de Arena Moliere's 'Escola de maridos' with a great cast with Riva Nimitz, Gianfracesco Guarnieri, Oduvaldo Viana Filho etc.
12 February 1956 - At Teatro de Arena, Moliere's 'L'École des maris' (Escola de maridos) first set on stage on 24 June 1661. Read the interview director Jose Renato gave to OESP's theatre columnist; Renato praises the debut of actor Gianfrancesco Guarnieri who soon would write seminal material that would change Brazilian theatre's trajectory.
26 February 1956 - At Teatro Natal, a Japanese legend 'Urashima Taro' (The princess and the fisherman) with Ivone Hirata and her 'Nissei' cast; Silveira Sampaio in 'No país dos Cadillacs' at Teatro Leopoldo Fróes.
4 March 1956 - OESP reviews 'No país dos Cadillacs'. José Silveira Sampaio (* 8 June 1914 + 24 November 1964).
11 March 1956 - North-American columnist Mary Wynne knew Sao Paulo's night-life deeply. She had been around forever (?). She knew how everything worked. What was 'hot' (new Othon Palace Hotel) and 'cold' around town. Who were rich (Mineiro farmers) and poor. Read her note about 1930s singer Aracy de Almeida flying back to Rio - her native town - after having lived in Sao Paulo for three years.
18 March 1956 - São Paulo's Teatro Experimental do Negro presents 'João Sem Terra' at Teatro Novos Comediantes on Rua Jaceguai, 520.
20 March 1956 - American author Louis Bromfield (* 27 December 1896 + 18 March 1956) dies. Bromfield wrote best-seller 'The rains came' in 1937; bought a piece of land near Campinas-SP he planned to farm. 2nd April 1956 - Emotivo! Sentimental! Pungente! Anselmo Duarte & Vera Nunes star in 'Pinguinho de gente', directed by Gilda de Abreu.
22nd March 1956 - Garcia Lorca's 'A casa de Bernarda Alba' with Maria Della Costa.
Maria Della Costa in front of her theatre on Rua Paim in Sao Paulo.
25 March 1956 - Sao Paulo's Radio Nacional announces a series of radio programmes with Aurora Miranda, MCed by Aloysio de Oliveira who had just been back from the USA and was his first job in Brazil since he had left it back in 1940 - 16 years ago. Pianist song-writer Vadico was the musical director.
25 March 1956 - 20th Century Fox's 1941 production 'That night in Rio' (Uma noite no Rio) is re-released in Brazil. It must have been a concerted effort with Aloysio's hand there. This is probably the last time a Carmen Miranda movie was re-released commercially in Brazil.
27 March 1956 - Mary Wynne goes out of her way to watch Silveira Sampaio's 'Na terra dos presidentes' at Oasis boite. She arrived at the night club at 1:00 AM to find the house packed to the rafters. Ms Wynne intended to go back and see it again in a more comfortable way.
8 April 1956 - columnist Mary Wynne says Aurora Miranda, Carmen Miranda's baby sister who lived with her in Beverly Hills, California but moved back to Brazil in the early 1950s is back in business taking part in 'Melodias inesquecíveis' (Unforgettable melodies), at Radio Nacional Paulista. Ms Wynne says she met the Miranda Sisters in the 1930s for the first time. That means Mary Wynne had been living in Brazil for more than 20 years now. Mary says she met Carmen some ten years later in Dallas, Texas where she sang at the Mural Room, Baker Hotel's night club;
Luiza Trevisan aka Cinderela has her biography posted at Revista do Rádio. The article says Cinderela who started working as singer & dancer at TV Paulista she also read announcements and advertising at the microphone; she also doubled as an actress.
8 April 1956 - the original 'Jograis de São Paulo' were Carlos Vergueiro, Rubens de Falco, Armando Bogus and Ruy Affonso.
21st April 1956 - Oscarito & his theatre company with Mario Lago's 'Papai fanfarrão' at Teatro Gloria, attached to Hotel Gloria, 2nd only to the Copacabana Palace.
22nd April 1956 - Italian-American Nicola Paone, who had a Number One record with 'Ue, paesano' in Argentina and Brazil sings every night at the African Boite. Mary Wynne salutes him as her 'paesano' (patrício). Paone was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania on 5 October 1915 of a Sicilian father who worked in the coal mines.
13 May 1956 - The day Teatro Bela Vista was opened to the public at Rua Conselheiro Ramalho, 538.
back of Teatro Bela Vista on Rua Conselheiro Ramalho, 538.
Sergio Cardoso at Teatro Bela Vista...
13 May 1956 - Just prior to the release of Hollywood's version of Tennessee Williams' 'Rose Tatoo', Maria Della Costa revives her 'Rosa tatuada' with herself and Jardel Filho.
13 May 1956 - Maria Della Costa never slept; she had one hit after another; Tennesse Williams' 'Rose tatoo' (Rosa tatuada) was her latest; At Teatro Bela Vista one could see Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' with music especially written by arranger Enrico Simonetti.
3 June 1956 - author Silveira Sampaio ends his 'No país dos Cadillacs' and starts 'Flagrantes do Rio' at the same Teatro Leopoldo Fróes.
3 June 1956 - comedienne-cum-show-girl Consuelo Leandro in 'Mas... muito mesmo' supported by marvelous Carmen Veronica and actor-comedian Agildo Ribeiro.
3 August 1956 - Mary Wynne tells Isaura Garcia's show at the Captain's Bar is usually watched by her colleagues like Elza Laranjeira, Virginia Morais, Dayse Santana and even youngster Cinderela.
5 August 1956 - at Teatro de Aluminio 'Satã disse Sim' with show-girls Dorinha Duval supported by Nadir Rocha; night-club singer Cléa Soares shows up at Radio Nacional Paulista's 'Grande Espetáculo' commanded by Yara Salles (Radiolândia, 1956)
8 August 1956 - Maria Della Costa with yet a brand-new play. This time Brazilian playwright Abilio Pereira de Almeida's 'Moral em concordata' that Miss Della Costa would film with Odete Lara.
13 August 1956 - be-bop's sensation Dizzy Gillespie & his band at Teatro Santana on 13 August.
2nd September 1956 - at TBC 'Eurydice' with Cleyde Yaconis & Walmor Chagas; superstar Oscarito is at Teatro Sao Paulo with 'Papai fanfarrão' written by Mario Lago & Jose Wanderley.
16 September 1956 - At Teatro Natal, the very best in burlesque 'A mulher é o limite...' with Consuelo Leandro and Carmen Veronica who were among this business' royalties... plus Agildo Ribeiro who was an all-round entertainer.
7 October 1956 - Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a hot tin roof' (Gata em teto de zinco quente) premieres on 18 October at T.B.C.
7 October 1956 - Abilio Pereira de Almeida's 'Moral em concordata' directed by Augusto Boal in its 3rd month; John Steinbeck's 'Of rats and men' (Ratos e homens) with Riva Nimitz, José Serber, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Nello Pinheiro Milton Gonçalves at Teatro de Arena; Oscarito in José Wanderley & Mario Lago's 'Papai fanfarrão' with Vera Nunes.
7 October 1956 - Tennessee Willams' 'Cat on a hot tin roof' (Gata em teto de zinco quente) with Cacilda Becker, Walmor Chagas, Ziembinski, Leonardo Vilar, Sadi Cabral, Dina Lisboa, Celia Biar; Adolfo Celi directs William Shakepeare's 'Othelo' at Teatro Santana on Rua 24 de Maio.
21st October 1956 - Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a hot tin roof' translated into Portuguese as 'Gata em teto de zinco quente' with Cacilda Becker as Maggie (done at Broadway by Barbara Bel Geddes) and Walmor Chagas as Brick, done originally by Ben Gazzara.
14 November 1956 - Italian crooner Teddy Reno opens at Boite Lord, the night club of Lord Hotel on Avenida Duque de Caxias. From Wednesday, 14 through Saturday, 1st December.
30 November 1956 - Rio de Janeiro's Ultima Hora's ad for Zaquia Jorge's Teatro Madureira which she was not only the owner but its top star in 'Mistura e manda' with Evilazio, Aurea Paiva etc.
2nd December 1956 - Mary Wynne raves about William Forneaud at boite Oasis who not only plays the accordion but impersonates the voices of Mario Lanza, Dorival Caymmi, Amalia Rodrigues etc.; Wynne went up to Hotel Lord's night club and caught up with Italian crooner Teddy Reno who was visiting the city.
19 December 1956 - Tennessee Williams' Cat on a hot tin roof (Gata em teto de zinco quente) at Teatro Brasileiro de Comedia with 'monstre sacré' Cacilda Becker and her protegé Walmos Chagas plus Dinah Lisboa, Celia Biar, Leonardo Vilar, Sadi Cabral & Ziembinski; at Teatro de Alumínio, Ruth de Souza in 'T.V. para crer'.
