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Possessed of great energy and natural charm, Forest soon became sales manager in the VTall street district, and made connections which soon proved mere than profitable. An investment in a ne77ly-formed company brought him sufficient return to assure him voice study in Italy.
Forest went to Italy in 1925 and made his operatic debut in 1928 in "La Boheme", presented in one of the smaller cities. This only after he had completed intensive study with such internationally known masters as Llario Ancona, llario Sammarco, Guiseppi Luca, Ferdinando Carpi and Froderico del Cupulo .
From the outset Forest's career as a singer in Italian opera was a success, and for throe years he toured the country, appearing in more and more important houses, as time wont on. In 1931 he was listod as a member of La Scala in Milan, highest goal in the opera world.
Forest never has sung at La Scala, however, for his first experience there was a distinct disappointment, and might easily have rained his career* The managing director asked him to sing the leading tenor role in "The Favorite of the King", an opera never before presented. Forest's study of the part, the music, and the whole, convinced him that tho work was certain to receive disapproval. He asked to be released and tlie request was granted. The opera was received as he had anticipated.
Forest's career was forwarded rather than retarded by this experience, fo: the recognition placed him well in the forefront among Italian singers, and he was asked to join a company financed by the Italian government itself, an extraordinary honor for an American tenor. He v/as with this company through 1934, and with it appeared in the principal cities from Cairo a\d Alexandria Sgypt to Oslo in Norway.
He returned to U.S.A. in June 1935, primarily to fill an engagement with
the Chicago Opera and then to investigate screan offers in Hollywood, He
signed with Paramount after one test. Last November, he went to Chicago, where he sang the leading roles i:i many of tho hit opex-as. Hie Jirst parts will be in "Big Broadcast of 1937" and "Chanpu»j:_e T.;altz" and latur he will do "The Count of Luxembourg". _____