Word: tenoritis
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...Brussels, the German Ambassador refused to allow an Austrian singer and two German dancers to entertain the Foreign Press Association at its dinner until assurance had been given that Nazi newspapermen would not be humiliated by having to listen to Josef Schmidt, German-Jewish tenor, sing in German. Instead, Tenor Schmidt sang songs in French, Rumanian - and Italian - which made the Italian press attaché hopping...
...nails. Reason: An old Neapolitan superstition that bent nails mean luck. She found a half dozen, toted them about with her while she sang the part of Desdemona in the season's opener, Otello. Thus equipped, Soprano Caniglia sang lustily, was lustily choked in the last act by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Otello) who finally covered her face with a pillow. The performance over, she had the ecstatic satisfaction (see cut) of being smothered again by flowers in her dressing room...
...debutant gave thrills to the audience as well as to himself: stocky honey-voiced Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling who had appeared three times previously with the Chicago Opera. Since 1932, when famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli was painfully extracted after a tiff over a salary cut, the Metropolitan had been chewing its tenor arias with bare gums. Thirty years ago when the Met had Caruso, Bonci and Slezak, Tenor Bjoerling would have been as superfluous as a wisdom tooth. But as the French poet Rodolfo in La Boheme, Swede Bjoerling took his top notes in the best Italian manner. His hearers...
...Tenor Gigli as leading man. The performance is lusty, not too refined, but good...
...profit-sharing plans, but after a summer of study, it now believes there are as many as 700. First profit-sharer to appear last week was President Richard R. Deupree of Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap). As he took the stand the survey's director set the tenor for the meeting by remarking: "This is not an inquisition, Mr. Deupree. We are glad to have you come to help...