Word: carusos
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...Ballgame interlude at the opera. That funny foreign language the brothers speak before a throng in New York is the soundtrack running backwards, but the New Yorkers couldn't tell. Vesti la Giubba is the aria from Pagllacci that Groucho is always humming (It was also Caruso's most popular record.). Don't forget the two hard-boiled eggs...
...that it is New York's oldest performing arts complex, founded in 1861. No matter that in its first golden age its stages presented Sarah Bernhardt in Camille, Admiral Peary showing lantern slides of his discovery of the North Pole, Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan and Enrico Caruso giving one of his final operatic performances. Changing times had made the Academy as outdated as the hobble skirt. Manhattan had taken over as the focal point for the arts in New York City; the Depression and a decline in the surrounding neighborhoods had turned the institution, economically, into...
...about a Jewish family struggling through the Depression on the Grand Concourse or somewhere. I saw a version a long time ago in New York, and if I remember correctly the whole thing is effective and inspirational, particularly the scene where somebody smashes the old man's collection of Caruso records. 8:15 p.m. at the Tufts Arena Theater in Medford, through Saturday...
There is, of course, an aesthetic case to be made against the national anthem. As Bass-Baritone George London indicates, the song is "impossible to sing if you're sober...the words do not automatically communicate their message." Another opera star, Enrico Caruso, found so little to understand in The Star-Spangled Banner that he devised a phonetic version: "O seiken iu see bai dhi dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs...
...Ford Enterprises rolled into the Boston Garden not too long ago and brought back some home-town favorites: the infamous Caruso, the Black Demon, Little Brutus and his midget tag-team,' and of course Bruno Sammartino. While Caruso (left) amused the crowd with his rope-chokes and ring-side histrionics and Manuel Soto, a local darling, summarily stomped the Black Demon (right), everyone waited for the big match between Sammartino and Turo Tanaka, "Professor of Jujitsu...