Word: tenoritis
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...Mother' or 'I Love You' in a way that seems like terrible corn today. But today songwriters have become too selfconscious. They are afraid of being hooted out of town for writing that kind of thing. Actually, you know," he added in his scratchy, rapid-fire tenor, "corn of itself is always good. If it's bad, it's just bad writing...
...work to get on that stage." Within three months, Jack's life's work was completed, when he and two other high-school kids were signed to sing at the Grove. Twelve years later, Jack was still a promising young crooner. Last week his twitchy, bouncy tenor was being gargled for its third consecutive year on the air, with CBS's Jack Smith show (Mon.-Fri., 7:15 p.m.), and he was making a "nice four-figure thing." Says he, "I never expect to be a Sinatra. I just hope to last longer than some of these...
...Operatic Tenor Tito Schipa's ex-wife Antoinette, who lives in Italy, complained that her alimony kept meaning less & less as the lira kept falling. She sued for a little adjustment: $1,000 a month in U.S. money would be about right, she figured...
...less gaudy sister, the Opéra-Comique. It was a performance to deter anyone with a less unrelenting ambition. In the heat and humidity, the Opéra-Comique's production of La Traviata was so languid that it threatened to expire with each bar. The tenor bleated woefully and the rest of the cast missed cues and acted with the decisiveness of a group of tourists lost in the sewers of Paris. Nor did it help that Edis sang the role of Violetta in Italian and the rest of the cast sang in French. During the first...
...been set upon 14 times by irate readers who objected to his acid words. The only man ever wounded by his Smith & Wesson was Goldschmidt; he shot himself in the hand while cleaning it. Usually it has been a beefy baritone or basso who socked him, although a tenor once tried to strangle him. Last week a woman beat him to the punch...