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Last week Enrico Caruso's only daughter was married in Rockville, Md. to Ensign Michael Hunt Murray, U.S.N.R., of Garrison. N.Y. Enrico Caruso's dark-haired, 23-year-old Gloria (by his 1918 marriage to Dorothy Benjamin Caruso, then and now of Manhattan) shares at least one thing in common with the rest of her generation. She is too young to remember her father's voice-the voice which millions have never forgotten. She was less than a year old on that operatic night in Brooklyn when blood suddenly spurted in Enrico Caruso's throat...
...Enrico Caruso made his dazzling international reputation in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. The son of a wine-swilling Neapolitan mechanic, he started as one of the many bush-league Italian tenors of the '90s with a voice so deep that he was accused of being a baritone. Not for several years did he discover his golden tenor range and enormous volume. And even with these assets, his Metropolitan debut in 1903 was no smash. Critics found his acting inferior and his vocal style coarser than that of his great, aristocratic predecessor, Jean de Reszke...
...soon Caruso's full-blooded Italian outpouring had won his severest critics. For nearly 20 years he was a world idol. His greatest performances have never since been equaled. He netted as much as $300,000 a year from the Met and fabulous recording royalties estimated as high as $3,000,000. He gave away huge sums to public charities and private friends...
...ladies' faces and shoes on young ladies' behinds, here develops his tenderest relationships with middle-aged ladies (the Misses George, Main and Hattie McDaniel), and each of them is worth a dozen average love scenes. Edward McNamara (an easygoing friend of the Cagneys whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed...
...Enrico Caruso's widow, Dorothy, who got out of Italy in 1939 and is now living quietly in Manhattan, told an interviewer she doubted that bombings would unite the Italians against the Allies, explained: "Every city is ... like a country itself. ... If Rome is razed to the ground Florentians will say to the Romans, 'If the capital had been in Florence, where it should have been, this would have happened...