Word: lanza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edition of Who's Who included some newcomers. Among the entertainers: Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, John Wayne, Mario Lanza. In government: Perle Mesta and Mike Di Salle. In fashions: Christian Dior and Jacques Path. In the Manhattan saloon set: Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley...
...Eddie Cantor Show (Tues. 10 p.m., NBC). Guests: Arturo Toscanini, Mario Lanza, Toni Arden, Jimmy Durante...
...Victor was as surprised as anyone when Enrico Caruso (in reissues) proved to be the company's No. 2 bestselling classical artist last year (No. 1: Mario Lanza). Quickly recovering from its surprise, Victor has reached into the treasury for more. In one LP, labeled Caruso In Opera and Song, the great tenor can be heard in ten arias, including familiar ones from Il Trovatore, Tosca and La Boheme. Famous Duets includes Caruso and Alma Gluck in La Traviata, and Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in the soaring first-act duet of Madame Butterfly. The quality of recording varies, since...
Slings & Arrows. Aghast at these antics, the doctors began to probe into Lanza's past. They found that during his two years as a "surgeon"' in the New World (he spent eight months in Venezuela and Colombia before going to Guatemala), he had never produced a single document to show that he had attended any medical school. Instead of the "200 successful operations" he claimed to have performed in Guatemala, he had actually done only eleven, not all successful. But he had gathered in far more than eleven fees, by collecting from prospective patients in advance...
...last week, Lanza himself was feeling the urge to fly. The military authorities, reluctantly bowing before the winds of medical indignation, had booted him out of his hospital post. An ex-patient sued him, newspapers denounced him as a charlatan, and the Colegio Médico sent out bulletins warning other Latin American medical societies against him. Sadly, Lanza prepared to depart for Mexico...