People, Jul. 18, 1977

Italian Actress Marilu Tolo took a crash course in English in Los Angeles and( is now speaking it—with brio—in a Greek drama on the island of Corfu. Tolo is on the set of The Greek Tycoon, the saga of a shipping magnate (Anthony Quinn) who chucks his mezzo-soprano mistress (Tolo) in order to marry the widow of an assassinated U.S. President (Jacqueline Bisset). All fantasy, of course. Tolo (pronounced Taw-lo) described her part as that of "a famous opera singer, a tempestuous, explosive character" who is "not Maria Callas." If there is any resemblance, it is not audible: Tolo cannot warble a note.

It was his first day as a parking lot attendant and Teddy Kennedy Jr. already had a traffic jam on his hands. The problem was not ordinary motorists, however, but reporters and photographers eager to see Senator Edward Kennedy's son at his summer job in Hyannis, Mass. Teddy, 15, and four or five other youths help passengers bound for the Nantucket ferry park their cars in the lot of the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority. Salary: $2.35 per hour. The job is the first for Teddy, who had his right leg amputated in 1973 because of bone cancer. So far, he is happy with his post. "It's an all right job," he said, adding, "It's better than not doing anything this summer." He got it "through friends." As for the future, he guesses that his "real job won't be along this line."

"I love life more now than I did as a boy, and I will go on loving it more until my last moments." The speaker was Painter Marc Chagall, who celebrated his 90th birthday last week. For the occasion, his friend and fellow Russian, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, helped to organize a gala concert in Nice, not far from Chagall's hillside home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Among the other performers who played or sang in his honor: Violinist Isaac Stern, Baritone Hermann Prey and Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Chagall attended the concert as well as a nearby exhibition of his biblical paintings of the past decade. Said he: "To work with love in his heart is a painter's mission, to make the world better." Besides his artwork Chagall is also dictating the second volume of his memoirs (the first volume was written in 1921-22). Speaking of his discovery of the Coóte d'Azur after he left Russia in 1922, he recalled: "I came here to search for flowers and birds, the crow and the fox, town rats and country rats."