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...made my patient play. I soon discovered that the tip of the tongue had too much room between the occlusion of the front upper and lower. . . . To correct this condition, I reset the front teeth several times. . . . For the final test he tried the famous William Tell duet full of staccatos and he passed with colors flying...
...Prince, Frank Hornaday uses his penetrating tenor voice to advantage in delivering the well-known "Deep In My Heart," in a duet, and "Serenade," backed by the chorus. At times he is a little insincere in a role requiring deep sentimentalism and emotionalism; but on the whole his musical performance is good enough to hold up his slightly weak histrionic performance...
...closest thing to professional entertainment was given by "Irish Puss" Gibbons with his priceless solos of old Irish songs accompanied by the inimitable pianist Howie Locke. I could honestly listen to this combination for hours, but this duet hasn't got the endurance of the aforementioned Hubert I could ramble on and on about the new-found talent, but it would run into somebody else's column...
Enrico Caruso remained a highly informal character. Once when Lillian Nordica was about to lift her voice in a love duet with him, he deposited a hot potato in her hand. In Tosca, when Antonio Scotti stooped to pick up the paint brush beneath Cavaradossi's easel, he had to yank at it for minutes-Caruso had nailed it to the floor. Caruso's most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against...
...orating windbag, Mr. Speakeasy, M.P., whose booming platitudes about freedom from want fail to interest the pensive soldier. He is also unmoved by the frenzied screechings of Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Rev. Hateman, the cleric, who unite in a Vansittart diatribe about German savagery and sing a duet: "The Germans are not the Herrenvolk. We are the Herrenvolk...