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...Chevalier des Grieux, young (27) Philadelphia-born Tenor David Poleri turned out to be one of the finds of the season. Laszlo Halasz, director of City Opera, heard Poleri last fall on a Chicago radio show. Handsome Poleri sang Des Grieux as if he had learned it straight from Caruso; his voice, less powerful and assured, is sweeter, lighter in color. He acted his part as if he were born...
Mario Lanza is a curly-haired young (29) movie singer who confesses breezily that he once scraped the label off a Caruso record and substituted one with his own name on it to get a part in an Air Force show. He can afford to be breezy now. After his first two movie roles (in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans'), Hollywood has cast Tenor Lanza as The Great Caruso, and Hollywood is inclined to feel that Caruso is doing well to get his name in the title. Meanwhile, so far as the new crop...
...Manhattan, Enrico Caruso's widow Dorothy finally came right out and said that the only living tenor who comes close to wearing "Rico's" crown is the Metropolitan Opera's Swedish-born Jussi Bjoerling. Said Tenor Bjoerling: "The greatest moment of my life...
...Methodist bishop, Bradford picked up his Runyonesque jargon as a carnival piano player, horse trainer, apprentice embalmer, boxer ("I was stomped on up and down the border for five pesos and a bowl of chili per fight"). He once carried a spear in Aïda when Caruso sang Radames...
...Treasury of Immortal Performances (Victor; 6 vols. 45 r.p.m.). To match Caruso, Paderewski and Kreisler in its classical Treasury series, Victor has combed its old jazz and pop files, reissued such collector's items as Fats Waller's Honeysuckle Rose, Bunny Berigan's In a Mist, Benny Goodman's Goodbye...