Word: enrico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Count Enrico Rossi di Montelera, 66, head of the famed Italian wine firm of Martini & Rossi, uncle of speedboat-racer Count Theo Rossi; in Turin...
Last week Benito Mussolini had a long talk with 77-year-old Marshal Enrico Caviglia, one of the few Italian heroes of World War I. Marshal Caviglia had recently inspected the fortifications on the Italo-French frontier and it was presumed that he and Il Duce did not discuss the weather. After this meeting all good Italians still waited anxiously for Mussolini to say something very definite about which way Italy would jump, as they had waited for three weeks since war began...
During the first quarter of the century records had their first boom. Disc-fans of that period paid the late Enrico Caruso alone some $3,000,000 in record royalties. What they paid for was a croaking shadow of Caruso's ringing voice. But in the days of hand-cranked Victrolas, even shadows were marvels of scientific progress. When the radio arrived in the early 20s, Victor Talking Machine Co., with Caruso as its biggest name, was doing more than half the industry's business to the tune of more than $50,000,000 annually...
Like sopranos, unlike basses and baritones, tenor voices go to seed early. When golden-voiced Enrico Caruso died at 48, he had passed his prime. Jean de Reszke and gut-busting Francesco Tamagno retired at 51. But not yet retired is Giovanni Martinelli, 53, robust, white-mopped tenor who made his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera the year before the War. Never the undisputed best of the Metropolitan's chandelier-jigglers, Martinelli has been a dependable artist in an enormous repertory (57 roles). In two operas, Verdi's Otello and Halevy's La Juive, critics...
...ways & means of this extraordinary group are best exemplified by Eddie Bernays, a swart, jittery nephew of Sigmund Freud (a fact of which he is inordinately proud). He began his career as a newshawk, then as pressagent for Enrico Caruso. Now he likes to consider himself a "priest to Big Business" and he ministers only at a high retainer. Procter & Gamble is said to pay him $25,000 a year...