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...Outsize (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) Tenor Mario Lanza now owns an outsize, custom-built white Cadillac with a gold-plated dashboard...
...haven't the slightest idea how much the band will be penalized," police lieutenant Mario Pepe said Saturday. He pointed out that the maximum fine for parading without permission is six months in jail and a $100 fine...
...Amico Fritz, Vittadini's Anima Allegra and Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe. It was also his doing that a good many famed singers made their U.S. opera bows in San Francisco, e.g., Italian Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Greek Contralto Elena Nikolaidi, Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco. Some Merola discoveries resulted from his travels. Others were noted by diligent San Franciscans who are glad to spend as much holiday time in Salzburg and Bayreuth as in London and Paris...
...people, 2,000 Riviera palms, and a 53-ft. Egyptian statue. As a clincher, a navigable canal (representing the River Nile) stretched between the stage and the 30,000 onlookers. The singing, with Italy's current top Soprano Maria Callas as Aïda and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Mario del Monaco as Radames, was first-rate...
...Everywhere, talk turned to the price of a vote. "I wanted 300 pesos [$3]," an old man was heard to say, "but they offered me only 230. There is no limit to the way they abuse the common people." The atmosphere of barter infected all Coihueco. Cabled TIME Correspondent Mario Planet: "I had to give 10 pesos to a little girl before she would tell me my way on a street. When I asked her another question, she demanded 10 more - just like a Coke machine." On election day, voters went straight from polling places to the payoff agents...