Word: enrico
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...Enrico Caruso, probably the most popular singer of all time, lived a life as tempestuous, verbena-scented and romantic as any Verdi libretto. He was already a mature (45) and wealthy idol (and the father of two illegitimate sons) when he met convent-reared Dorothy Park Benjamin, courted her under the disapproving eye of her blue-blooded U.S. father, married her and made her one of America's most toasted women. With operatic fervor, he plunged into his new role: the impassioned husband and father...
Died. Marshal Enrico Caviglia, 82, onetime Italian Minister of War (1919), Senator, World War I hero, holdout against Fascism (in 1943 he was rumored plotting with Marshal Badoglio to oust Mussolini); after long illness; in Finale Marina, Italy. When Italy teetered toward war in 1940, he gave Il Duce some sound, unheeded advice: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary...
...your Jan. 22 issue . . . you use the word "schmalz" in connection with Enrico Caruso Jr. We are sorry to say we do not understand the expression...
...Enrico Caruso Jr., son of the late great tenor, took a late plunge into what he hopes will be a "serious singing career," and did it the hard way-amid the smoke, clatter and twirling bare legs of a Buffalo nightspot. One conscientious nightclub reporter, mindful of his duty toward an illustrious musical name, gravely noted in Tenor Caruso's version of the Flower Song from Carmen a tendency to "flat in the upper register." But everybody agreed, after hearing Caruso's What a Difference a Day Made, that his schmalz was terrific...
...Enrico Caruso Jr., 39, sometime playboy, onetime cinema bit-player, vocalist, who resembles his late, great tenor father in name only, announced that he would begin singing for his supper soon in Buffalo and Detroit nightclubs...