Word: lyrically
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Presiding over his radio program of incredibilities, Robert Leroy Ripley beckoned to the microphone a tubby lyric tenor who had played obscure cinema parts. Listeners heard a thin voice with forced higher registers pour out "O Pari-diso" from L'Africaine, one of the favorite arias of the late great Enrico Caruso. Announced Mr. Ripley: "You have just heard the voice of Enrico Caruso Jr.- believe...
...plot is only an excuse for putting across the music and dancing, and in this case is not hard to accept when accompanied by the show's well-drilled ballet and the voices of Margaret Bannermann and Michael Bartlett. Miss Bannermann has an ideal voice for interpreting the lyric Straus melodies, and Michael Bartlett boasts a pleasing velvet tenor as well as a profile of the best vaudeville tradition. Their most beautiful number probably is the duet, "To Live Is to Love," written by Johann Straus...
...Terangi (Jon Hall), has been happy all his life because he has been free and healthy. His boss, Captain Nagle (Jerome Cowan), gave him a blue cap when he made him first mate of the fishing schooner; after that Terangi was happier than ever. His happiness reached a vivid, lyric pinnacle when he was married in the Catholic church, in front of all the island, to his love, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). He did not understand her nightmare a few nights later when she dreamt of a high wind and birds flying away. Its omen seemed to have no bearing...
When Erna Sack, a comely blonde stenographer in Berlin, saved her pfennigs to study voice, she thought she was a mezzo-soprano. So did her first teacher, although a subsequent teacher lightened her voice so that, when Conductor Bruno Walter heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival...
Ellen Wilson McAdoo, 22, daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of President Woodrow Wilson, made her professional singing debut as a lyric soprano with a WPA Federal Music Project unit in Glendale, Calif...