Word: carusos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After he sang an Italian song, Ideale, on a We the People program several weeks ago (honoring his old rival Caruso), a friend phoned to say, "That was a good record they put on for you last night." Martinelli took pleasure in setting him straight. "I can sing as well as I ever could," he insists-although "I would not say I could get through Otello or Aïda now." Those who heard him sing Ideale were surprised at the ease and quality of the old tenor robusto's voice. The catch, and the reason for his retirement...
...Victor was as surprised as anyone when Enrico Caruso (in reissues) proved to be the company's No. 2 bestselling classical artist last year (No. 1: Mario Lanza). Quickly recovering from its surprise, Victor has reached into the treasury for more. In one LP, labeled Caruso In Opera and Song, the great tenor can be heard in ten arias, including familiar ones from Il Trovatore, Tosca and La Boheme. Famous Duets includes Caruso and Alma Gluck in La Traviata, and Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in the soaring first-act duet of Madame Butterfly. The quality of recording varies, since...
Divorced. Joe Pasternak, 50, Hungarian-born movie producer (Three Smart Girls, The Great Caruso); by onetime Movie Starlet Dorothy Hallenbeck (Dorothy Darrell), 31, who charged extreme mental cruelty, e.g., he criticized her before her friends; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Burbank, Calif...
...Great Caruso...
...Another Caruso? Not yet, says Conductor Fritz Busch, who picked Poleri for Forza, but he has many of the attributes. "Poleri sings from where Caruso used to -around the waistline. His voice comes up with depth and timbre. But it's just as important that he's filled with limitless ambition to do the right job, the good job, to get across the exact effect. And he listens to advice. Will he become truly great? He ought to unless he's mishandled during the next two or three years...