Word: tenoritis
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...Grand National). When Beniamino Gigli (pronounced zhee-lyee) was a choirboy in Recanati, Italy 40 years ago, he was called "Il Passero Solitario" (the solitary sparrow). When Enrico Caruso died in 1921 and Gigli inherited his roles at the Metropolitan Opera, he was called "the world's greatest tenor." Eleven years later when Gigli refused to take a 10% salary cut to help the staggering Metropolitan keep going, he was called names far less flattering, which so ''diminished" his "dignity as a man and as an artist'' that he went back to Europe...
...guests stranded without food or heat, room, telephone or elevator service. At the Palace, Cinemactor Jean Hersholt lugged his bags down eight flights to the lobby, where he was met by the manager with a handtruck. Best prepared for the emergency was the Metropolitan Opera's Tenor Nino Martini. Gallantly manning an elevator, he explained that he had learned how during New York City's elevator strike last year...
...going through the Opera House's swingdoors. Tier upon tier of the gold & scarlet boxes* were full of distinguished Britons and foreigners as distinguished. Peppery old Sir Thomas Beecham waved his baton. The curtain rose on a storm-tossed ship, the first scene in Verdi's Otello. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli of the Metropolitan sang his first role at Covent Garden since 1914. The Coronation season of grand opera began...
...John Simeon Williams. For seven years this slight, 39-year-old man of God, who left Jamaica to labor in Cuban sugar fields, left there to earn his way as a tailor through Alabama schools and a Chicago seminary, has shepherded an Omaha flock of 57. A good tenor. Minister Williams built up an interdenominational choir which has given 250 concerts, sings on the air once a week. In their modest home near his church, Mrs. Williams last week neglected the washing to receive visitors...
Soloist at the Wellesley-Harvard joint choral concert this Sunday will be a former member of the Glee Club, Joseph Lautner, '21. As an undergraduate he was first Secretary and then President of the choristers. Since then he has studied abroad, where he attained world-wide fame as a tenor and has recently returned from a European concert tour. The concert will be at Wellesley in Houghton Memorial Chapel at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening, and is open to the public free of charge...