Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WARREN L. BASSETT Oakland, Calif...
Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Don't Touch Me, a drama, with Shelley Winters, Warren Stevens, Mildred Dunnock...
...studded with familiar names, and in the pit was Fausto Cleva, veteran of the Met's Italian wing. But on this routine occasion the audience was treated to a beautifully sung, splendidly paced evening for which much of the credit went to two middle-aged American singers named Warren and Tucker...
Twenty years or so ago, Bronx-born Leonard Warren (né Warrenoff) was busy selling fur jackets and studying advertising at Columbia, and Brooklyn-born Richard (originally Reuben) Tucker was selling dyed silk linings to the wholesale fur trade. Baritone Warren turned to singing (he won the 1938 Metropolitan Auditions of the Air) when the Depression shrank the fur business; Tenor Tucker turned to singing when the outbreak of World War II shrank the silk supply. Both advanced quickly in the war-hobbled Metropolitan, both quickly became reliable, stock-in-trade singers. In recent years they have blossomed into spectacular...
...movingly sang his farewell to his mother, the sure delicacy of his voice topped off by his rough parting cry: "Un bacio, mamma, addio!" After the intermission, the other local man showed up in Pagliacci, costumed in disreputable red wig, striped T shirt and ill-fitting green jacket. Leonard Warren was, as usual, a powerfully resonant Tonio, alternately strutting and servile as he paced in front of the curtain and expounded Leoncavallo's advice to the audience that an actor is "a man with a heart like yours," and that "what he tells you is true." Playing Tonio with...