Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reported Engaged. Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Ambassador to Spain, widower of famed Lillian Russell; to Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram, widow of Enrico Caruso (famed tenor), onetime wife of Captain G. A. Ingram...
...cares to remember," mused the Washington Post last week, "the Metropolitan has been passing through Washington on its way to Atlanta." For 19 years, to be precise. Not since Theodore Roosevelt sang off the key in his White House bathroom, not since the Metropolitan meant the tenor glory of Caruso, not since 1908, when the name...
...school education . . . vaudeville songsters. But Rosa came to Manhattan, took singing lessons from William Thorner. He, recognizing talent, visited Gatti-Casazza, announced a "find." "Let me hear her," answered the Director. He did, was impressed, advised her to work up one or two roles. She made her debut with Caruso, after six months of vocal instruction. Carmela is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Hartford concert was the first appearance of the two sisters together in public since their success. They were born in Meriden, Conn, (near Hartford...
...Indian arrow. So marvelously could he then sing that universal applause shook the marshlands. The scrub oaks roared, the cattails clicked, The bumblebees lay down and kicked. A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored...
...that the strength of his native wing is three times that of the German, twice that of the Italian, 33 times that of the French. But being Mr. Gatti-Casazza and little given to explanation in English, he will probably throw up his hands, say "Find me an American Caruso!" turn on his heel and go about his business, imperturbable again, dignified, the very personification of authority...