Word: mario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soundly trounced in the Senate, Italy's Communists and fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists turned to the Chamber of Deputies last week in their effort to choke the anti-Communist government of Mario Scelba with the tangled web of the Montesi case...
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...
Certain that M-G-M would eventually relent, Mario refused to be downhearted. Born the same year that Enrico Caruso died (1921), Mario feels that nature intended him as Caruso's replacement. To underline the idea, he has faithfully followed Caruso's taste in black Homburgs and spats. The legacy was further ex plained by Mario to Columnist Earl Wilson: "God gave me my voice as a gift- and I am only the keeper of the voice...
...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...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). With Betty Grable, Mario Lanza...