Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They needed a songbird in Heaven, so God took Caruso away" -so runs the catch line of a onetime popular song-a ditty which was scratched from every phonograph, mewed through the sinus cavities of every cabaret tenor who could boast a nose, caroled by housewives at their tubs and business men at their shaving. Before the echoes of the blatant dirge had been quite relegated to that mortuary of all songs - the monkey-organ - certain tenors were beginning to thud their chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan...
...Scala, Milan. His next work, Edgar, was a failure; but he won note with Manon Lescaut, and international fame with La Bohème. Tosca and Madame Butterfly followed. The Girl of the Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short operas Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, given their première at the Metropolitan six years ago. These latter failures could detract little from his fame. Tosca, La Bohème, Madame Butterfly, Manon Lescaut are part...
...have just read your little article, entitled Flowerless, in the Oct. 13 issue of TIME. I was Mr. Caruso's secretary for several years up until the time of his death, and I am in a position to give you some facts concerning the matter which this article treats rather fantastically...
Immediately upon the death of Mr. Caruso, it was the intention of his widow to build a chapel worthy of this great artist and man in which his body might rest for all time. All arrangements were made, and it was calculated that three months would elapse before the structure would finally be completed. Meantime, Mrs. Caruso preferred that her late husband's body rest somewhere else than in an exposed grave, and she made arrangements with friends of the family to keep it in a private chapel until the new one should be finished...
...convinced that the persons who originated this story are of that group of publicity seekers who, by associating themselves with an illustrious name, hope to attract attention to their little selves. It is a mistake to give credence to such reports. Enrico Caruso is not forgotten...