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(Warner Bros.) . G Cert. AMES M. CAIN, who curled our hair back in 1934 with The Postman Always Rings Twice, wrote another novel four years later called Serenade, which (and I quote from the reference books) concerned an ageing degenerate baritone. To make a vehicle for the ageing Mario Lanza-the middle-aged spread is there, anyway-the tone of Caii:’s original has been raised an octave to give us a tenor who, as it happens, is not degenerate at all, but just becomes a bit mixed up inside. And, of course, in the hands of the right woman even a neurotic tenor can get unscrambled. It’s true that if I could sing half as well as Lanza can I wouldn't be pounding this typewriter, but it’s equally true that Lanza doesn’t sing half as well as Lanza could. And when he tears off "Farewell to Sorrento" with all stops out and the kitchen china rattling he sounds like a candidate for The Goon Show.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 917, 8 March 1957, Page 7
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163SERENADE New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 917, 8 March 1957, Page 7
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