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You Know HimWell,Though Not By His Real Name of Sameniegos; And There's a Reason For His Resistance
By DOROTHY DONNELL
CAZAZAROSSI, sung by Sameniegos."
That is the way it will read on the programme of "La Tosca" when the audience at the Berlin Opera turns to seek the name of the new singer, a slender, boyish figure in the monk's robes instead of the tubby German tenor of tradition.
Sameniegos. A sonorous, mouthfilling name for a grand opera singer, a name that will sound well after the Bravos! Hochs! and Vivas! with which the generous foreign music-lovers greet their operatic favorites.
■"Sameniegos.? Who is he.'' An American, you say! He is as handsome as a young Apollo. Now God be thanked, one need not close one's eyes in the love-passages!"
"Sameniegos.'' An American with that name and those eyes.? And he can sing, too. Where has he been studying.? He would be marvelous as Lohengrin.''^
At last here is a tenor to play the romantic lovers of grand opera. Even stage moonlight cannot disguise the fact that most passionate outpourings of vocal love emanate from middle
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aged gentlemen with tummies which velvet cloaks and chain armor cannot hide. But here, young, dark-haired, fiery-eyed, with the body of a Greek athlete, is the virginal Pelleas, the swashbuckling Duke of "Rigolet . to," Lohengrin, the white-souled; Tristan, greatest of lovers; Lieutenant Pinkerton as he must have looked when he won the alien heart of Butterfly. Sameniegos, the new grand opera star! Why has no one heard of him before.? Sameniegos— what is he to Hollywood .?
IDENTIFIED IN PARIS
I AST summer a young man ^ in an American-cut suit stood in the ticket line at the Paris Grand Opera. A Frenchman, leaning against the wall nearby, stared at him intently, and at length touched him on the sleeve. "What is your name. Monsieur.?"
In French as good as his own, the young man answered courteously, "My name is Sameniegos."
The other turned back the lapel of his coat revealing a glittering badge. "You'd better come clean," said he — or i the French equivalent — "I j can't be fooled. I'm a detec I tive and my business is to 1 {Continued on page 104)
Pictorially, he is equally effective in a scowl or a cowl. Sameniegos, a screen star known by another name, as he will appear in opera as, above — Lohengrin and — ^ at the left — as the monk in "La Tosca"
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