Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miguel Fleta, of Spanish and South American fame, was the important addition to the list of singers. As Cavaradossi in Tosca, he was received with an applause which Caruso might have envied. To Mme. Jeritza's hat and fine feathers he was a courteous if not impassioned lover...
Engaged. Mrs. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, 30, widow of Enrico Caruso, to Captain G. R. Ingram, " wealthy Scotsman." He gave her swimming lessons last Summer at the Lido, Italy...
...performances increased constantly. A war with Hammerstein came and, after many qualmy moments, was carried to victorious conclusion. Chicago opera competition was met without any serious loss of prestige. The great stars whom Gatti found waiting for him when he took the directorship passed with the years ? Caruso died and Farrar left the organization. Stars as great have not arisen to take their places, yet the standing of the opera has gone higher. Titta Ruffo and Gallf-Curci have created no new glories for the Metropolitan. Among the newcomers only Jeritza has achieved something like old time Metropolitan stardom...
...went to work for his brother, Nazareth, a shoemaker. But Antonio became only an indifferent cobbler. He learned to sole a shoe only passably, and regarded the putting on of O'Sullivan and Cat's Paw heels a sad bore. He had a great passion for Caruso records, and at times when he should have been hammering and stitching he cranked a phonograph and listened, rapt. At his work he always sang...
...Gloria Caruso, three-year-old daughter of the late tenor: " I am summering at Deauville. A despatch said that I ' romp around in a little one-piece bathing suit, just like the big girls...