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...into a dance to Verdi's crackling Stride lavampa music, and Page and the dancers were in full command. In the Anvil Chorus, the dancers whirled with so much gusto that the crowd could hardly keep from stomping out the rhythm with them. Standout scene: Azucena's duet with Manrico, her foster-son and the instrument of her revenge against the aristocratic Di Luna family. The ballet, like the opera, ended in a flood of blood, with Azucena, Manrico and his sweetheart dying and the wicked Count di Luna going mad. The curtain came down with Azucena triumphant...
...Believe It (Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger; Decca). A specialty duet about love, sweet love, with Merman doing the trumpeting, Dancer Bolger joining in with somewhat less assurance...
...Julius Lulley, proprietor of Harvey's Restaurant in Washington. "Lulley had a bar," Sherman recalled sentimentally, "and we sat around [it] a bit and then . . . O'Dwyer and Marcantonio went out into the garden . . . and took their shirts off and even got to singing together . . ." The duet did not become political. "While the Little Flower [Fiorello LaGuardia] lives, I will be for him and with him. If he don't [run], then you and I can get together," Marcantonio told O'Dwyer...
...once played a Caruso record 27 times at a single sitting. But it was not until he was about 19, after dabbling unsuccessfully with piano lessons, that he began to take his own voice seriously. One summer day, listening to records in his room, he burst into a duet with Caruso. His father was a thrilled eavesdropper. After talking it over, the family decided that Freddy must go to a voice teacher and develop his talent...
After crowning as "The Tennessee Waltz Queen" Singer Patti Page (whose recording of the song has found more than 2,500,000 buyers), Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning stepped on stage at Loew's State in Memphis to join her in a duet which won the heart of the governor's harshest critic in another field: Memphis Boss Ed Crump. "The governor," observed Crump, "is a much better singer than politician...