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...admen (one of them worried so much that his hair turned charcoal grey), and the big names of show business whose egos outgrow their talents (favorite targets: Arthur Godfrey, Eddie Fisher, Frank Sinatra). "Wouldn't it be wonderful," observed Sylvester one bright morning, "if Arthur Godfrey hired Mario Lanza and Lanza quit before Arthur could fire...
...Mexico to begin shooting a film version of James M. Cain's Serenade (about the meteoric career in opera of a farm boy who hits the skids in Mexico and is befriended by a Mexican beauty), badboy Tenor Mario Lanza was on his good behavior as he met the press in San Antonio. He explained that he was enthusiastic about making his first picture in three years: "I don't want to be inactive again. Inactivity breeds inactivity...
Burly Cinematenor Mario [The Great Caruso'] Lanza, a devil-may-care sort of swashbuckler with four playful children, found himself in a peck of trouble in California courts. Net of two separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because...
...autograph?' She fixed a frozen eye on me, then raised the book so as to obscure me. I have often wondered about her behavior." Dame Edith chimed in coolly: "I have often mused that the lady suspected you, Osbert, of having nefarious motives." Bullish Tenor Mario Lanza, who recently played a real-life role (on the Chrysler Corp.-sponsored Shower of Stars, CBS-TV) as a singer so weakened by dieting that his recorded voice had to be dubbed in for his own (TIME, Oct. 11), landed a rather controversial movie role...
...Lanza, who sang for newsmen soon after his TV fiasco to prove that his thunderous throat had lost none of its volume, was signed by Warner Bros, to star in the screen version of James M. Cain's novel Serenade. In the film, to be shot early next year, Mario will portray an opera star whose voice suddenly deserts him, then briefly returns to him in Mexico as he leads a more manly life...