Word: carusos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Business of moviemaking can no longer afford to pamper its temperamental stars. This simple fact of Hollywood economics was made abundantly clear last week to Tenor Mario Lanza, Who rode to movie stardom on the success of the musical, The Great Caruso...
...mind to become a singer until he was 24. He took to music as soon as he was big enough to crank up his mother's phonograph in Celeste, Texas. But he liked the violin music on those old records better than the vocals of Galli-Curci and Caruso. When he was twelve, he coaxed his mother into giving him a year's worth of violin lessons. Twelve penny-pinching years later, he concluded that his fingers were too stubby. Then a Philadelphia singing teacher told him he had a voice...
...Emma Eames, 86, last of the great divas* of the "golden age of opera"; in Manhattan. Famed for the technical excellence of her voice and her "Botticellian" beauty, Soprano Eames sang in French, German and Italian opera at the Metropolitan from 1891 to 1909 with such glamorous colleagues as Caruso, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink and Melba...
...week's end, The Great Caruso was breaking records in movie houses throughout Italy...
...like his brother Rodolfo, now dead, was born as a result of the great Caruso's grand passion with Soprano Ada Giachetti. Although Tenor Caruso never married Ada, he recognized the two boys as his own sons, thus gave them a legal status in the eyes of Italian...