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...Tamed Tenor Beniamino Gigli, whose friendliness toward the Nazis caused U.S. Army officials to bar him from singing at a United Nations concert in Rome (TIME, July...
Beniamino Gigli, huffy-puffy, onetime Metropolitan Opera tenor repatriated in 1939, was invited by the British to sing at a concert in Rome, then disinvited at the last moment by U.S. Army officials, after his fellow Romans sounded off about his late pro-fascism (TIME, June 19). Gigli, whose announced selection for the concert was I Close My Eyes to Dream, declared himself an artist, not a politician, said: "I'll sing for the British and Americans . . . but I'll never sing for the Italians again...
...streets, where a honkytonk version creates an obbligato for a children's merry-go-round. There are adroitly timed stock-shots (best: the men of the supremely confident Afrika Korps riding through the ecstatic farewells of civilians). There are bits of irresistible comedy (best: the florid, juicy Italian-tenor version of the song; the whooping refinement of its rendition by Frau Hermann Göring II, re-enacted at Berlin's Kroll Opera House). There is intelligent characterization (best: a subtle young Nazi radioman who introduces Lili Marlene at the height of the German victories, later...
Armand Tokatyan, Bulgarian-born of Armenian parents, Egyptian-raised, Italian-trained, U.S.-naturalized tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, protested in fluent English ("My wife is highly emotional, selfish, headstrong, insanely jealous, quarrelsome and irresponsible") against his better half's plea for $250 weekly alimony pending separation. He said she once told him: "Your voice stinks." He also said, while denying various charges, that when a policewoman pinched him at Macy's lingerie counter, it was not because he had pinched her first...
Last week a mob of anti-Fascist Italians sacked the Roman villa of Beniamino Gigli, famed tenor, who in 1932 quit the Metropolitan and returned to Italy in a huff after refusing to accept a depression pay-cut. Tenor Gigli was accused of friendliness with Nazi officials in Italy...