Word: mario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mario Lanza is a curly-haired young (29) movie singer who confesses breezily that he once scraped the label off a Caruso record and substituted one with his own name on it to get a part in an Air Force show. He can afford to be breezy now. After his first two movie roles (in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans'), Hollywood has cast Tenor Lanza as The Great Caruso, and Hollywood is inclined to feel that Caruso is doing well to get his name in the title. Meanwhile, so far as the new crop...
Last week, on his first major concert tour, Mario reached Pittsburgh for an appearance with the Pittsburgh Symphony. The town rocked with the same kind of adolescent adoration that had just left Richmond and Baltimore reeling...
...Shut Up!" Mario no sooner checked into his hotel than the phone calls from bobby-soxers began. Some of them had come 60 miles just to get his autograph. Syria Mosque, where Mario was to sing, is the biggest hall in Pittsburgh (3,800 seats), but it had been sold out 48 hours after the ticket window opened. Edward Specter, manager of the symphony, threw precedent to the winds and sold tickets to Mario's warmup rehearsal the afternoon before. They went nearly as fast...
...bidding, a native boy named Filipino, for whom "freedom" would be a chance to explore the fascinating vistas he has glimpsed in old copies of LIFE and Vanity Fair. And the new Prospero has his Caliban, the "freckled whelp" of the island witch, a half-breed named Mario, for whom freedom would mean a chance to murder his master and rape the master's daughter...
...Strange Twinkle." Ostilio and Santina are Christian Democrats. The village mayor, councillors and all the other officials are Communists. They decided to get rid of Ostilio and Santina. A few weeks ago the Communists brought from Modena the official party photographer, Mario Botti. He set up his camera in the room adjoining the registrar's office, drilled a hole through the wall, pierced the portrait so that the camera lens peered through Garibaldi...