Word: tenoritis
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After seven exciting weeks of hunting big game in East Africa (bag thus far: five lions, 38 assorted wild critters), beefy Tenor Lauritz Melchior had a narrow squeak. The Metropolitan's veteran dragonslayer fired as a charging Cape buffalo came at him, fired again & again & again, finally dropped the one-ton beast less than ten feet away...
After 2½ spicy months in the tabloids, Ferruccio Tagliavini, 35, robustious Metropolitan Opera tenor, was adjudged, by a 2-1 decision, the father of a 17-month-old girl, whose mother is an enthusiastic brunette music lover named Mary Phillips, 28. The court ordered Tagliavini to pay $25 a week for the baby's support. The outraged tenor, for almost eight years married to bouncy Met Soprano Pia Tassinari, denied everything and announced that he would appeal. Said Miss Phillips: "I'm so happy for baby . . . She needs new shoes." But the trial had taught her bitterness...
...they learned only the barest details of the North Atlantic pact, tabloid readers learned a lot about life's triumphs, travail and heartbreak that readers of the Times and Herald Tribune (which chose to run Tenor Tagliavini's troubles on its music page) often missed in their news...
TELLS OF TRYSTS WITH OPERA TENOR FERRUCCIO TAGLIAVINI. Across the page, they found a handsome "Raffles," who had allegedly stolen $1,000,000 in furs and jewels, and kept mistresses on both coasts and "was said to resemble Ronald Colman" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the News, they read all about a tenacious housewife whose 2-YEAR, $7,000 HUNT FINDS LOST HUSBAND-and who obviously did not intend to let him get away again...
...quartet Little Louis was a tenor, but his ambition in 1913 was to sing bass. His change of mind began one New Year's Eve, when he was twelve. To celebrate, he had hauled his father's old .38 revolver out to the street and fired it off. He was picked up and taken to juvenile court where, he remembers, the magistrate told him that while he wasn't a bad boy he might get to be one if he kept playing around Perdido Street at night. Louis was packed off to ihe Colored Waif...