Word: tenoritis
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Against these obstacles Phil Silvers pits his jovial buffoonery. But his brash, rapid-fire humor entertains only in spurts, and then in the unsubtlest of ways. His best scene comes late in the picture, as he parodies a tenor at the burlesque while half-clad maidens stumble around in the background. No one else has much of a part, although some of vaudeville's oldest stand-bys have landed jobs in the supporting cast...
...opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly. All applauded what the ghost and Wenner-Gren had wrought. Much bucked up, the white-haired financier decided last week to pour another...
...Artistry of Stan Getz (Clef LP). The famed West Coast jazzman and Co. warbling some strangely appealing dissonant counterpoint. Getz's felt-toned tenor sax blends humorously with a valve trombone...
Among the operagoers who heard Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco sing at Milan's La Scala last week was a blind woman named Irene Meyer, 33, from Gaithersburg, Md. Two years before, she had heard him sing Radames in Aïda at Manhattan's Metropolitan. Stricken with incurable diabetes, Irene told friends in Gaithersburg that what she wanted most of all was to hear Del Monaco once again. What happened could have happened only in the U.S., where people 1) form committees, 2) believe that dreams come true. Irene went to Milan on funds donated...
...production of The Student Prince went before the cameras after a two-year delay precipitated by the temperamental walkout of pudgy Tenor Mario Lanza. The film will star British Newcomer Edmund Purdon, no singer, who will act out the songs, with gestures, to the sound-track voice of Lanza, who recorded the songs before he left the studio. Said Actor Purdon: "When I first heard [Lanza's recording], I thought it was full of excesses and a bit hammy. He sings as if he were in perpetual ecstasy. Then I realized how good that is because it gives...