Word: tenoritis
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...Rome, the family of Tenor Beniamino Gigli (who admired the way Mussolini bossed Italy) got anonymous threats by phone and mail. Tenor Gigli, who recently testified in court against some Roman gangsters, is now singing in Switzerland. When he gets home, the threats said, he will be knocked...
Laurltz Melchior, the Met's heroic tenor, fought heroically through a blizzard to sing in Bloomington, Ind., but it was no use. He tried to fly from Chicago, but the planes were grounded. So he set out by auto. An hour later he was stuck in a snowdrift. Bloomington presently heard from him by phone, too late. He had discovered that he was fighting his way toward Bloomington, Ill., 160 miles away from Indiana's Bloomington...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). An all-Wagner program, with Soprano Rose Bampton, Tenor Set Svanholm. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
Handel: Messiah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent conducting; Huddersfield Choral Society, with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor and Norman Walker, basso; Columbia, two albums-38 sides, $22.50). An outstanding performance but not quite as good as the version done by Sir Thomas Beecham more than 15 years ago. Performance: orchestra and chorus, excellent; soloists, fair...
...almost before the reader knows it, years & years have passed and Chloe is drifting to her death in Latin America, having made derelict love to all comers, including an Argentine tenor, a Nicaraguan politico and a Grace Line purser. Readers of drugstore novels, as soon as they spot the heroine's name, will know this is for them; for Chloe is to this season's novels and soap operas what Sandra and Brenda were to the trash of previous years...