Word: carusos
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...caused "public scandal," made "a holy show" of themselves. Latins, like Polish Catholics, sometimes love the minor authority of the priest more than the major authority of the Church. The parish seethed with resentment last month when it learned that it was to have a new priest, Father Vincent Caruso. It wanted Father Louis Loi-Zed-da, who had been assistant in the church for seven years. Two Sundays ago, when Archbishop Schrembs attempted to have Father Caruso installed as pastor, the parishioners massed, booing and yelling, in front of the church. Sixty policemen could not break through the crowd...
...Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, at the Beaux-Arts Diamond Ball, socialites paraded: Mrs. Adolph Spreckels in a $500,000 necklace, Mrs. S. Winston Childs Jr. in diamond-meshed stockings. Cinderella for the night was 20-year-old Theodora Caruso, 5-&-10?-store clerk, escorted by Designer Ladislaus Czettel, who made her a costume...
Siegfried et al. In the early 1920s, when the late Enrico Caruso died and Soprano Geraldine Farrar retired, the Metropolitan's Italian opera began to limp downhill. But its Wagnerian opera has goosestepped steadily on. When big, blue-eyed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad joined the company in 1935, Wagnerian opera began to boom, played to the biggest box office the Met has known since Caruso's day. Principal drawing card in the Met's Wagnerian productions was Soprano Flagstad's bosomy personality and earth-mother voice. But she could not have done it all by herself. Supporting...
...swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced prima donnas. Fashionable composers like Handel had to write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of the period was the Italian eunuch-Francesco Bernardi Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives...
Ninety-five per cent of its output consists of the 35? popular discs advocated by President Kapp, and Crooner Crosby sells about 2,000,000 of these a year, a post-Caruso record record...