Word: caruso
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...hasn't a great voice. She can act, of course, especially in those roles that call for the robust, voluptuous type. But it is mainly that mystical something that passes across the footlights and makes the audience a collection of cheerers-personality. Caruso had it, and it did as much toward his success as his miracles of voice and phrasing. The crowd liked Caruso. He made friends with them right away...
...fortunate circumstances under which Rosa Ponselle made hers. She had been a cabaret singer in New Haven, Conn. She was just out of vaudeville. Gatti Casazza thought he had found a second Farrar. For her first operatic appearance, the New Haven girl opened the Metropolitan season singing opposite Caruso in Forza del Destino. She had an enormous triumph that night. Since then her success has languished. She is an American. Perhaps if she had the personality of Jeritza she could have overcome that handicap...
...King Mud, King of the Golden River, Curtis Nelson '24 Andrew Carlton '16, Harvard Quarterback, G. A. Weist '24 Mary Stevens Blair, of 399 Fenway, Back Bay 3770-W, C. H. Morgan 2nd '24 Enobarbus, Who took Military Science with Antony, J. J. Collier '23 Mardian, Cleopatra's Enrico Caruso, W. E. Collins Jr. '24 Chairman, Both confidante and confident, Paul Mendoza Jr. '23 Iris, A valuable piece of brass in Cleopatra's silver service, Kellogg Gary '24 A Soothsayer, Who missed his own age, Curtis Nelson '24 Lightnin', a messenger to Antony R. S. Flinn '23 Octavious Caesar...
...Carpenter '24 Sweeney, The King's Stenographer, Kellogg Gary '24 Mary Stevens Blair, of Fenway 399 Back Bay 3770 W, C. H. Morgan 2nd '24 Andrew Carlton '16, Harvard Quarterback, G. A. Weist '24 Enobarbus, Who took Military Science with Antony, J. J. Collier '23 Mardian, Cleopatra's Enrico Caruso, W. E. Collins '24 Charmian, Both confidante and confident, Paul Mendoza, '23 Iris, A valuable piece of brass in Cleopatra's silver service, Kellogg Gary '24 A Soothsayer, Who missed his own age, Curtis Nelson...
...Yucito has gone very thoroughly into the reasons for Caruso's success. He speaks of his fine physique and his robust constitution, but he calls especial attention to Caruso as an ambitious and eager student, --never satisfied,--always pushing onward. He quotes the tenor as saying:-- "Success is due to real work along one's natural calling. Work, work, and still more work, makes the fine singer. Laziness in preparatory work makes the failure...