Word: carusos
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...weighing 200 handsome pounds, was brought up in a St. Louis orphanage, became a San Francisco motorcycle policeman in 1926. In 1930 Mine Ernestine Schumann-Heink admired his tenor voice. Four years later San Francisco Opera Director Gaetano Merola took Officer Stinson under his wing, called him a potential Caruso. Sympathetic professionals, including Singers Giovanni Martinelli, Gina Cigna, Kirsten Flagstad, pitched in to send Officer Stinson abroad to study. This week Officer George Stinson, on leave of absence from the California Highway Patrol, sails, with his wife and 16-year-old stepson, for Italy. Said he: "I hope someone hits...
...past two decades they have been growing scarcer & scarcer. Opera impresarios count on the fingers of one hand (Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Borgioli, Schipa . . .) the lusty high-voiced Latins still capable of raising even moderate-sized rafters on either side of the Atlantic. Since the death of Enrico Caruso (1921), tenor departments of U. S. opera-houses have shown a steady decline. Today their audiences count it a privilege to hear their "Ridi Pagliaccios" and "La donna e mobiles" sung by anything bigger than a microphone voice...
Chicago critics who had described Masini's U. S. debut in Lucia di Lammermoor last month, and subsequent appearances in La Gioconda and Tosca as "one long crescendo of excitement," now spoke of him unhesitatingly as "another Caruso." While Chicago music-lovers last week were congratulating each other on this sensation of the musical season, Tenor Masini was being watched by hawk-eyed impresarios from coast to coast...
...anatomist, Edmond J. Farris, has developed such a remarkable chemical technique for preserving specimens that he is confident he could preserve indefinitely the body of any notable human being, at a cost of $20,000. (He deprecates the preservation of Enrico Caruso and Nikolai Lenin as "mere embalmings," suspects that the body of Caruso is secretly re-embalmed every year, says "Lenin is turning dark. He won't last...
...radio program of incredibilities, Robert Leroy Ripley beckoned to the microphone a tubby lyric tenor who had played obscure cinema parts. Listeners heard a thin voice with forced higher registers pour out "O Pari-diso" from L'Africaine, one of the favorite arias of the late great Enrico Caruso. Announced Mr. Ripley: "You have just heard the voice of Enrico Caruso Jr.- believe...