Word: tenoritis
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Walter Midgley, English tenor, has always recognized the hazards of stage mustaches: "They're a lot of trouble. They come off and make you look silly. I usually wear a painted one." But for publicity photos one day last week, he tried on a two-pronged affair on a nylon gauze mounting. It fitted so well ("You didn't know it was there") that he decided to wear it in Rigoletto at Covent Garden that night...
...felt fine. Every word was a joy." "La costanza tiranna del core detestiamo qual morbo crudele,"* he sang-and sucked in a deep breath to go on. In the same instant, off came the left wing of his mustache. Carried on the air stream, it disappeared down the tenor's throat...
...Love (Coleman Hawkins; Circle). The best of the jazz tenor saxophonists fills a whole side with one of his surprising inventions, and builds it from beginning...
Born. To Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza., 31, Hollywood tenor, and Betty Lanza, 30: their third child, first son; in Los Angeles. Weight...
...purple and scarlet, costs at least $3,000. Last week, on the heels of his appointment of 24 new cardinals (TIME, Dec. 8), Pope Pius XII ordered members of the Sacred College to scale down on the splendor. The world situation, said a papal decree, enjoins "a sober tenor of life upon all and a measured and austere one, particularly upon the clergy...