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Return Engagement. In Toronto, a burglar kicked in the window of a radio showroom, cut his leg, went to a hospital for treatment, returned to the radio shop, made off with a radio, a phonograph, several dozen records...
...asks him to leave the building, Raisz will live on in Cambridge, take occasional mountain-climbing trips, and sometimes go over to Memorial Hall for a Saturday night square dance. Music too is one of his great interests, and next to his desk at the Institute is a small phonograph with a stack of records nearby. At the end of my interview with him, he put a Mexican folk-dance on the record-player and said, "Don't go just now. Wait, this is very good." And then as the sound of music filled the room, he added under...
...smoke still pluming into a clear sky, bandits not busy looting or loading lined up in the plaza to drink aguardiente from the local cantina. They hauled the little harmonium out of the church, tried to play it, failed, and smashed it with rifle butts. Then they found a phonograph. It provided music for a wild dance in the plaza's basketball court. Edelmira did not dance, and under her eye the bandits dared not seek village women for partners. So the men danced together, one cavorting wildly in a cassock he found in the priest's house...
...Cover) It was the emotion-packed end of Act I of Pagliacci, and the clown's heart was broken; the sob-racked notes of Vesti la Giubba soared out of the phonograph, quivered through the cluttered den of Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza's Beverly Hills home. An exuberant young man with the face of a choir boy and the frame of a prize bull let the vibrations pour over him until he could stand it no longer. His bright black eyes glistened. "Oo, Mario," he cooed lovingly, "you can sing like a sonofabitch ! " Both the voice...
Broken Record. Lanza, who learned to sing mainly from listening to phonograph records, is the only classical artist in RCA Victor annals to sell in a year more than 1,000,000 copies of a single record (Be My Love). It is a feat the company happily expects him to repeat with The Loveliest Night of the Year. Though he has sung in only one opera (two performances of Madame Butterfly in New Orleans), his phenomenal drawing power in appearances was matched around the U.S. in the past season only by Britain's Sadler's Wells Ballet...