Word: caruso
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...could have boasted rightfully of his business prowess. In the Opera's palmy days had he not made performances pay for themselves in addition to providing a $1,000,000 nest egg? He could have recalled many historic scenes: plump little Marcella Sembrich making her operatic farewell; Enrico Caruso singing his last, as the bearded Jew in Halévy's La Juive; Geraldine Farrar appearing in Die Königskinder with a flock of real, live geese (TIME, Nov. 12); Maria Jeritza giving her first breath-taking Tosca; Marion Talley making her début with mounted...
When Geraldine Farrar announced to the world that, at 40, she would retire from opera, none but close friends took her seriously. She was still in her heyday?gay, darkly handsome, alive with magnetism. While Caruso was the great voice at the Metropolitan, she was filling the old house with glamour and excitement. Her 40th birthday came on Feb. 28, 1922. Less than two months later she gave her farewell performance. That memorable afternoon streamers were hurled from the balconies, flowers and confetti were piled on the stage. A great audience stood and cheered through its tears...
...already nationally popular and that day Jimmie Rodgers became the greatest hillbilly of all. Tired, unshaven, racked with tuberculosis, he twanged his guitar, sang and yodeled ''Sleep, Baby, Sleep." Victor made a record of it. Within a year it sold more than 1,000,000 copies, topping Caruso's sales for any single year of his career. Jimmie Rodgers' second recording was called "Blue Yodel." So popular did it prove that he followed it with a "Blue Yodel No. 2," then a "No. 3" until he sang 25 of them, sold...
...been begging for its life. The Hippodrome seats were cheap (99? top). So was the quality of the performances. But listeners for the season topped 1,000,000. The impresario was Alfredo Salmaggi, a longhaired, high-strung Italian who taught the late Queen Margherita to play the mandolin, carries Caruso's silver-headed cane and specializes in Aïida with horses, elephants, camels...
...audience jostled out into the night the talk was not so much of the comedy as of the evening's one serious interlude. When Narrator Knight reached the year 1921 the stage was empty save for the big bass drum and the clown's cap which Enrico Caruso used in Pagliacci. While the audience was reverently still a Caruso phonograph record was played...