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Later, in cell 37 at Cook County jail, Dickie Carpenter recalled again his love of music ("Caruso was the best, but Gigli is a genius"). And what had happened to the boy who loved their voices? "I guess I never felt I had something to give," he said. Then he began...
...closed his eyes in trusting contentment. Ned Harrigan's fans were no less staunch. A copy editor for the New York Telegraph added this personal postscript to a news column on Harrigan: "I'd rather hear Ned Harrigan sing one verse of the Mulligan Guards than Caruso warble his entire repertoire." Harrigan and Hart the merry partners, were the ruling entertainment team of the New York stage from 1871 through 1885. Declared a New England guide book of the period: "A visit to New York would be as incomplete to the countryman if he did not see Harrigan...
Burly Cinematenor Mario [The Great Caruso'] Lanza, a devil-may-care sort of swashbuckler with four playful children, found himself in a peck of trouble in California courts. Net of two separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because...
...Rome, a civil court ruled that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had sometimes made Italy's great Tenor Enrico Caruso appear far less than great in the movie The Great Caruso. Awarded to Caruso's heirs, for MGM's reflections upon the family's honor: $8,300 damages...
Ever since Gigli replaced Caruso as the Metropolitan Opera's star tenor in 1920, audiences have applauded him less for artfulness than for artlessness. He sang and acted with his peasant's gusto-"with the whole force of his body," one critic wrote, "as naturally as a gamecock fights." Vocal style usually went out the window when he saw a chance to prolong a honeyed mezza voce, a thundering high B-flat, a sob, a gulp or a tearful portamento...