Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because he is a crack pistol shot, neither duel was fought. Now over 70, Don Ezequiel shows up at the paper punctually at 5 p.m. for the daily editorial conference with Editor-in-Chief Dr. Rodolfo N. Luque. Present also is his nephew and heir-apparent, handsome Alberto Gainza ("Tito") Paz, 43, father of eight and ex-Argentine open golf champion. Significantly, La Prensa's owner-publishers visit their editor-in-chief and not vice versa...
Sopranos Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini; Tenors Richard Crooks, Tito Schipa; Baritone Antonio Scotti; Basso Feodor Chaliapin; Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...chief stock in trade, fine voices. Unexpected blows last season were the loss of its greatest artist and box-office draw, Kirsten Flagstad (holed up or held up in Norway); its next-best Wanerian soprano, Marjorie Lawrence (victim of paralysis); Tenors Jussi Björling (stranded in Sweden) and Tito Schipa (recalled to Italy). Like a consistently losing team, the Met did not attract packed grandstands...
Tenors the Met has had aplenty, but most are strictly platers. This year it had to scratch two: Jussi Bjoerling (because he could not get out of his native Sweden); Tito Schipa (because he returned to his native Italy at the bidding of Count Ciano). New tenors were Kurt Baum, a personable Czech (onetime heavyweight boxing champion of Prague) who showed good form in a bit in Der Rosenkavalier, and Jan Peerce, a veteran of Radio City Music Hall, who showed even more in his debut as the hero of Traviata...
...Every night these women rushed me," reported Mexican Cinesinger Tito Guizar after a trip to Cuba. "They followed me . . . kissed and hugged me ... cut locks from my hair . . . cut pieces of my suits . . . undershirts and underwear. . . ." Promptly Cuban film exhibitors banned Guizar from' the country's screens for what Cuba declared was an insult to the dignity of its women, ∙ ∙ John Steinbeck's Mexican documentary film, The Forgotten Village, was banned as "indecent" by New York's State Board of Censors. It contains childbirth sequences. ∙ ∙ Mae Murray, suing Billy...