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From the British Studios came "Lilec Domino” with tenor Michael Bartiett stili not fulfilling his promising debut with Grace Moore in "Love Me Forever".
In the cast of this minor English film was S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall, who later appeared in countless Hollywood films as a character comedian supreme.
Other Italian msical films of 1940 included *Stella del Mar*? (Star of the Sea) with Galliano Masini. Signor Masini, who made an impressive debut in “Lucia di Lammermoor" at the Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1938, sang only one season at that famed operatic institution. He proved one of the most exceptional and exciting singing-actors on the lyric stage and brought to mind the great Pertile. His voice was to be heard on the sound-track of opera films produced after the War. Tito Schipa was seen in "Chi e Piu Felice di me" (Who is Happier than I) and Beniamino Gigli appeared in "Leggitima Difesa" (A Fair Defense). None of these pictures received too wide a distribution since they omitted English sub-titles.
Recalling the film year of 1941, two motion pictures immediately spring to mind one from America, the other from Italy. The former starred Nelson Eddy and Rise Stevens and was based on Ferenc Molnar'’s %The Cuardsman" with msic by Oscar Straus entitled "The Chocolate Soldier”. This wonderful romp proved Mr. Eddy a fine farceur and Miss Stevens quite at home in her new medium. Mr. Eddy’s "Song of the Flea" (in Russian) and Miss Stevens’ "Mon Coeur s‘ouvre a ta Voix" from "Samson et Dalila were memorable moments from a most diverting film. “The Chocolate Soldier" was so good that it failed to "click" at the box office and a hopeful promise of more co-starring vehicles for Eddy and Stevens fell by the wayside. Such is public taste and apathy! The other worthwhile celluloidic offering of that year was "The Dream of Butterfly” in Italian with English sub-titles. This starred Fosco Giachetti and Roumania’s gift to the lyric theatre, Maria Cebotari. The touching story contained some