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...Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns only on All Souls' Day. Antonio Ajello once estimated it will last 1,800 years...
...soon as they could get to Ravello from Naples, 23 miles away, correspondents cornered Stokowski in the Hotel Caruso, where he had gone to telephone. Was his companion Greta Garbo? Were they married? Would they be? To all such impertinences, Stokowski firmly refused an answer. "I never talk about personal things," he said. Swedish Author Dr. Axel Munthe was more informative. Greta had called at his Capri home for tea that very afternoon. Accompanying her, he said, had been "a gentleman named Stokowski, whom I do not know, but who looked like a Pole...
...idyl their editors were gasping for: Greta milking a cow named Emma* while Stoky held Emma's head; Greta contentedly stroking the white nose of a llama while Stoky picked fresh white camellias, presented them with conductorial bows to "my lady of the camellias." At the Hotel Caruso, where, until they were discovered, the couple had gone regularly to eat their vegetarian lunch, their waiter said: "He certainly must love her to eat that stuff [carrots, beets, lettuce]. Before she came he used to eat plenty of meat and spaghetti...
...last year received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar. Four years ago, when the Manchester Guardian announced that the 4,000,000th Gracie Fields phonograph record had just been pressed, it definitively opined, "The only singer who may have exceeded Gracie Fields' number was Caruso, but in his time figures were not carefully kept...
...golden age" which all operagoers ever 50 recall with sighs, the famous Rodolfos of Puccini's La Boheme (Bonci, Caruso, Gigli) had powerful voices and rotund figures. Today's cinema-bred audiences demand smaller bellies, and get, as a rule, weaker diaphragms. Old-time opera fans do not mind the drop in avoirdupois, but they sniff contemptuously at the comparatively microphonic murmuring that goes with...