Word: bartolo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madison Square Garden last week, the fans showed what they thought of Uncle Mike's prices. Just before Willie Pep knocked out Sal Bartolo to become undisputed featherweight champion, the fight announcer ballyhooed the details of the coming heavyweight fight, and was drowned out by boos. The day before, Manhattan police raided the Jacobs Ticket Agency, just around the corner from Mike's office, found the best seats being scalped...
Other headaches: many V-12ers will graduate during the height of the football season (all-America Halfback Angelo Bartolo Bertelli leaves Notre Dame Oct. 30 for the Parris Island Marine base); because of rigid schedules, trainees will average only 20 hours of preseason practice (prewar average: 50 hours); age levels have dropped sharply (Princeton, which had averaged a 21-year-old squad, now averages 17 to 18); sudden shifts and mysterious whiskings-away of Naval trainees (said Dartmouth's Coach Earl Brown: "We are supposed to have inherited a wealth of brawn and brain . . . but I can tell...
...English. Rossini's The Barber of Seville, now in rehearsal, he telescoped from a three-and-a-half to a two-and-a-half-hour opera (including intermissions), put in spoken dialogue, built up the lesson scene between Rosina and the Count by adding comedy lines, changed Dr. Bartolo from a typical Italian buffo character (quavering, senile old man with red putty nose) into a near likeness of Cinemactor Frank Morgan. Dr. Bartolo's first aria he changed from a scolding song into a Gilbert-&-Sullivanian self-analysis...