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Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Ezio Pinza, dashing basso of the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years, sat on Ellis Island while a substitute Mephistopheles sang at the winter season's last matinee. Italian-born Basso Pinza, who had eleven touring dates, also had one with an examining board: he was in the hands of the FBI as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. His second wife, American Doris Leak Pinza, and his mother-in-law described him as an enthusiastic, 100% American. "He never even met Mussolini," declared his wife. Fretted her mother: "I hope they don't hurt his feelings. He is very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Have & Have Not | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Arturo Toscanini, Soprano Lotte Lehmann, Basso Ezio Pinza, as "enemy aliens," found they had to get U.S. permission to travel from city to city. Questionnaires had to be filled out in quadruplicate for each jump. It meant that concertouring Lehmann signed 80, concertouring Pinza 88 (both of them have taken out their first papers). Toscanini won the right to go from New York to Philadelphia to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1942 | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Died. Mary Lewis, 42, popular operatic soprano of the '20s; of gall bladder and kidney trouble; in Manhattan. She spent three years with the Ziegfeld Follies, made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1926 as Mimi in La Bohême. The next year she married Basso Michael Bohnen and quit. She divorced Bohnen, in 1931 married the late oil and shipping tycoon Robert L. Hague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Grace Moore and Tenor Charles Kullman flung themselves about in The Love of Three Kings in San Francisco, collided with a whack. Her shoulder dislocated, Miss Moore shortly met a stage death at the hands of Basso Ezio Pinza, who choked her with vigor, suffered deep scratches on his hands and arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mouthpieces | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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