Word: carusos
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...chubby Irish lad who thought he knew something about singing, too. He had a gold medal from a Dublin musical festival to prove it. And he had been making $50 a week, singing at the St. Louis Exposition. That night in 1905 he first heard the great Enrico Caruso in La Boheme. "The best lesson . . . I ever received," John McCormack said, years later. The lesson: that a singer with a natural gift, and powerful lungs, still had to work...
...while the bravado of a political prisoner creates drama. From Rome, TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi reported one such drama: Into the courtroom of Rome's old uni versity, where students once faced examiners, strode Peter Koch (an assistant to Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light as the carabinieri removed his handcuffs. Koch let his gaze wander with an air of unconcerned, conscious superiority over the crowd...
...Dorothy the light opera turned to tragedy in December 1920, when Caruso sang L'Elisir d'Amore at the Brooklyn Academy and a blood vessel burst in his throat. On Christmas eve he sang La Juive at the Metropolitan, on Christmas day he was ill with acute pleurisy. By spring he seemed to recover, and Dorothy took him home to Naples, where he died...
When she agreed to do a book, the publishers sent a girl ghost writer to Mrs. Caruso's Florentine drawing room in Manhattan. Caruso's grand piano, his 16th-Century Madonna and Mrs. Caruso's story were too much for the girl ghost: she kept weeping over her work for two weeks. Finally Mrs. Caruso said: "I decided to write the book myself. While I wrote I could smell the verbena just as though he were here. . . . Those failures [her two marriages since Caruso's death] were no one's fault. . . . Death had not ended...
...Caruso's body was displayed under glass in a white marble sarcophagus for eight years until Mrs. Caruso appealed to the Italian Government, had the casket closed...