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Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Tito Guizar, Mexican tenor, guest; Donald Voorhees conducting...
Beniamino Gigli, once of the Metropolitan Opera, who took his operatic tenor back to Italy in 1932, had less of a home than he used to. Fire (origin undetermined) swept through his Roman villa, did $22,000 damage...
...through the classics. The trouble was, none of the old boys knew how to start an opera right. They had a rousing overture, the curtain rose, and a bunch of minor characters went into some tedious, scene-setting song. What Hollywood wanted was an overture, curtain, and zowie-a tenor aria for Lauritz Melchior...
Liszt in Technicolor. Of the many "serious" musicians to trek to Hollywood (among them Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Risë Stevens), only Jose Iturbi and Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior have made the grade, by their ability to be themselves on the screen, to get off foolish lines with M-G-M stars Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Metropolitan Opera Tenor James Melton sings some light, some heavy music as guest on one of radio's better musical half-hours...