Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like sopranos, unlike basses and baritones, tenor voices go to seed early. When golden-voiced Enrico Caruso died at 48, he had passed his prime. Jean de Reszke and gut-busting Francesco Tamagno retired at 51. But not yet retired is Giovanni Martinelli, 53, robust, white-mopped tenor who made his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera the year before the War. Never the undisputed best of the Metropolitan's chandelier-jigglers, Martinelli has been a dependable artist in an enormous repertory (57 roles). In two operas, Verdi's Otello and Halevy's La Juive, critics...
...ways & means of this extraordinary group are best exemplified by Eddie Bernays, a swart, jittery nephew of Sigmund Freud (a fact of which he is inordinately proud). He began his career as a newshawk, then as pressagent for Enrico Caruso. Now he likes to consider himself a "priest to Big Business" and he ministers only at a high retainer. Procter & Gamble is said to pay him $25,000 a year...
...greatest actor since David Garrick and the greatest singer since Caruso...
...Metropolitan Opera House heard about it, signed him up. Last week Tenor Masini's Manhattan debut packed the Metropolitan with an expectant throng. Singing his favorite part, Edgardo in Lucia, Masini failed to make quite as high a mark as he had in Chicago. Critics found him no Caruso but a younger, fresher, less-seasoned Giovanni Martinelli...
...tricks, so they began dealing in human hair which went into the towering coiffure of stylish ladies. Once more the Musicas prospered. Philip became a man-about-town, lived at the Knickerbocker Hotel, wore high heels and spats to match his trousers, palled around with people like Caruso...