Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diplomats are not figures of fun to Journalist Ladislas Farago, a short, soft-spoken Hungarian. He wants the world to realize that diplomats are not "striped-pants people and cookie-pushers." To show the shirtsleeve tenor of the new diplomacy, he has launched a self-styled "international journal," Corps Diplomatique, a Washington fortnightly...
Trenet is just 30, six feet tall, and built like a halfback. His creamy tenor occasionally softens to a bedroom whisper, but usually it is roguish and rolling. As he sings, he twists and crumples a battered felt hat. That was how he began ten years ago in Paris' Bohemian cabaret Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof). Soon he was earning more on the radio and in the music halls than Chevalier. During the war he sang for French prisoners in Germany. He looks well-fed; as he explains it, "there is always a crust...
...adequate job on it--but there is no excuse for badly timed entrances or faulty intonation. The altos and basses sounded usually correct, although it was not easy to hear them over the roar of a complete string choir, but the music quickly found the weak spots in both tenor and soprano sections, and unfortunately hammered at them through to the last, car-shattering high...
Born. To Tito Schipa (pronounced Skeepa), 57, Italian-born ex-Metropolitan Opera tenor, and Teresa Borgna Schipa, 22, his second wife: his third child, her first, a son; in Lisbon. Name: Tito Luis Joao Michelangelo. Weight...
...Mayer-Burstyn), made by OWI Overseas in 1943 for European distribution, is now for the first time released in the U.S. Its star: Arturo Toscanini, who (with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...