Word: basso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Bergman was an only child. Her mother died when she was three. Her father, a big, merry, popular photographer-artist, who liked to flex his basso in the bathtub, hoped his daughter would become an opera star, and early accustomed her to the enjoyment of routines before cameras. Ingrid was deeply attached to her father, but even before he died, when she was 13, she was much alone and without playmates. As soon as she learned to walk, and about as naturally, she learned her famous self-sufficiency and intactness. And she learned the thing that made it possible...
Hollywood let it be known that Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Chaliapin were there and at work: the late great Playwright Anton Chekhov's nephew Michael and the late great Basso Feodor Chaliapin's son Feodor as cinemactors in Russia; the late great Novelist Leo Tolstoy's grandnephew Andrey as the film's technical adviser...
...said John Lewis in solemn basso. "We have to fight this war with human beings. Human beings are subject to all the ills to which the flesh is heir...
...research staff often spends hours checking the authenticity of a single detail. And the actual work of painting a TIME cover is so exacting that we need three top-flight artists to keep up with our requirements-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff, and Boris Chaliapin (son of the Metropolitan basso). All these painters have such interesting stories that some week soon I will try to tell you about each of them...
...Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...