Word: carusos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome-born operatic baritone, one of the brightest stars of the Metropolitan's "Golden Age"; in Manhattan. He sang in the world premiere of Madame Butterfly (Milan, 1904), was in the cast when Rosa Ponselle, Marion Talley, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons made their Metropolitan debuts, when Enrico Caruso sang his last aria...
...Sterling Hayden) with a twisted sense of honor and self-respect; an urbane lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is addicted to high living and low morality; a coldly efficient criminal mastermind (Sam Jaffe); a spineless, greedy bookie (Marc Lawrence); a cop-hating hunchback (James Whitmore); a home-loving safecracker (Anthony Caruso); a pathetic nightclub trollop (Jean Hagen); a cynically corrupt detective (Barry Kelley...
Manhattan's Luchow's Restaurant, a favorite hangout of Teddy Roosevelt and Jenny Lind, where Diamond Jim Brady went for bearnaise sauce, Enrico Caruso for pigs' knuckles and John Philip Sousa for imported frankfurters, was sold by Proprietor Victor Eckstein (an heir of Founder August Luchow) for about $500,000. Although the restaurant will carry on under new management, Oldtimer H. L. Mencken mourned: "It's the end of civilization...
...first singers to be engaged for next season at the Metropolitan Opera, his ninth season. Even so, he is not his wife's favorite tenor: in her catalogue of greatness, Jussi comes after 60-year-old Beniamino Gigli. Jussi, who has been called the "Swedish Caruso"-inaccurately because his voice is colder and lighter in color-says, "That's all right, Gigli's my favorite too." He never heard Caruso. As a boy of nine he toured the U.S. in the "Bjoerling Male Quartet" with his father and two brothers; while they were singing in Manhattan...
...Town Hall to sing his first recital in eight years. His tenor was a little rusty, and he had not yet worked back to his former full-voiced power. But he sang the songs of Mozart, Beethoven, Wolf, Verdi with lyrical warmth and expressiveness that reminded some of Caruso indeed. He also sang the songs of Tchaikovsky, Glinka and other Russians and he reduced a house filled largely with Russian expatriates to bravos and tears...