Word: tenoritis
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...Pagliacci, La Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore, uncontrolled laughter at Virginia Pemberton who as Micaela in Carmen gave the season's most inept performance. In Carmen Manager Longone interpolated a floor show by the popular dance team, Veloz & Yolanda. His innovation had its box-office effect but purists shuddered...
...chubby artlessness, to play the part of the psychiatrist. Mr. Slezak was the amiable bumpkin in Music in the Air. And most spectators will find it hard to understand why such a handsome brunette as Nancy McCord ultimately dismisses Baritone Walter Woolf King (formerly Walter Wolf) in favor of Tenor Slezak...
...loudly heralded new Warner musical, "Stars Over Broadway" achieves one rather definite end. It introduces to the movie-going public a leading favorite of the air-lines, James Melton whose personality and really fine tenor voice will probably establish him as the next serious contender for the crown now worn by that perennial juvenile. Dick Powell. Melton's face conforms to no known standards for eminence in the screen world but his voice registers superbly, and all in all he is a definite addition to the Warner...
...fine flair for comedy. She exhibited a natural coloratura voice so flexible and sure that critics forgave her the occasional tones which were metallic and edgy. Proud Father Salvatore Tumminia found that business picked up following his daughter's success. Two days after her début Tenor Schipa climbed into Barber Tumminia's chair, let him lather his face while pretty Daughter Josephine trilled...
...Claypool, he has advised his client to further her social aspirations by sponsoring an opera company. Mrs. Claypool gives $200,000 to the director of the company (Siegfried Rumann), who signs up famed Lassparri and his sweetheart, Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Meanwhile, by mistake, Groucho has signed an unknown tenor, Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones), who also loves Rosa. Ricardo, his friend Chico, and Harpo, discharged valet of Lassparri, stow away in Groucho's trunk when the opera company sets out for New York from Milan. What follows in the course of one of the most complicated feature comedies ever photographed...