Word: tenore
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...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 on the record and the ecstatic compliment came from Mario Lanza himself, at 30 the first operatic tenor in history to become a full blown Hollywood star...
Millions of ardent fans agree with Tenor Lanza, in his admiration of 'the voice that has lifted him, almost as smoothly as it clears high C, from Philadelphia's Little Italy to a unique spot in U.S. show busi ness. For natural power and quality, though not for training or polish, it is a voice that many experts rank with those of the titans of opera. The voice sells Lanza, but Lanza, also sells the voice with curly-haired good looks and a paradoxical combination of beaming boyishness and hairy-chested animal magnetism. He is at once...
...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. His third and latest movie, The Great Caruso, an aria-studded pseudo-biography of another pretty good tenor, broke a record in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall by piling up $1,500,000 in ten weeks...
Last week Tenor Lanza, a onetime street-gang wiseguy who never did a day's work until he was 21, was working hard for his money. In a sweltering rubber suit, he puffed along California roads or sparred with his bodyguard-trainer, trying valiantly to sweat off the excess poundage that was costing an exasperated M-G-M many thousands of dollars for an eleven-day delay in the start of his next picture, Because You're Mine. For the moment, Lanza looked more like Mike Di Salle than Lieut. Pinkerton or any other operatic dream prince. Just...
...tenor of your interesting July 9 article on submarines was much too disparaging of our designers and engineers. The strengthhulls of American WW II subs were the equal of any combatant. Maximum submerged speed of all submarines prior to the XXI was about 9 knots. Our radar was superior to that of any combatant, as was our fire control (electromechanical aid in solving the torpedo aiming problem...