Word: lanza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highbrow companies as Westminster and Vanguard (The Bach Guild) have turned out money-making jazz albums. At Victor, which has just hired its first full-time jazz executive, a jazz-type record called Inside Souter-Finegan for six months outsold everything in the imposing Red Seal catalogue except Mario Lanza's Student Prince. Last June Dave Brubeck made his first Columbia record, Jazz Goes to College, and did even better: for four months it outsold any single album by another kind of pianist named Liberace...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Lend an Ear, with Edgar Bergen, Mario Lanza, Sheree North...
Word of the hoax got out. At first CBS denied the story. Lanza himself fumed : "This is the kind of stuff that makes me flip my lid. There is no reason to use old records. My voice is the greatest in the world...
Hulking Hollywood Tenor Mario Lanza was a big box-office hit 3½ years ago in The Great Caruso. But when his temperament interfered with his work on The Student Prince, M-G-M canceled his contract (TIME, Sept. 15, 1952). Lanza relaxed in his rented ($2,000 a month) Beverly Hills house, eating well while his already overstuffed bulk swelled...
When CBS offered him $40,000 to appear on Shower of Stars, Tenor Lanza announced he would make his long-awaited comeback. He dieted furiously and reduced his weight by 40 Ibs. But when it came time to loose the famous voice, he was too weak from dieting. CBS, deciding that Lanza was too big a name to drop from Shower's première, tried a secret expedient. When the monthly show opened last week with Betty Grable and Harry James, Mario merely mouthed the lyrics while some of his three-year-old recordings provided the sound...