Word: dition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater critic for the Yale News. As "The Meyer Davis of Yale," he organized some five dance bands, one of which he took on 22 Atlantic crossings. One night he heard Tito Schipa sing an aria and decided to be an opera singer. By 1936 he wangled an au dition at the Metropolitan, but when he discovered the small size of his starting salary, he gave in to an offer to appear in the Elsa Maxwell-Leonard Sillman Who's Who. Who's Who did not turn out to be Sonny. He played another musical, began singing...