Again Caruso

Seventeen years have passed since Enrico Caruso walked into the Victor Talking Machine plant in Camden, N. J., called out a greeting to everyone he met, shed coat, waistcoat, collar, tie, shut his eyes and became for a few moments the brokenhearted clown in Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba, the clown's song which Caruso sang that day, helped more than any other to put his record royalties over the million dollar mark. Victor says that no other voice has recorded so brilliantly, so exactly as Caruso's. But the mechanics of record making have undergone many a change since he died. The old discs sound thin now. the accompaniments particularly inadequate.

Victor's Raymond Sooy was responsible for the new version of Vesti la giubba which, with M'Appari from Marta on the reverse side, was put on sale last week in record shops all over the U. S. Raymond Sooy. who engineered the making of the original Caruso records, felt that full justice had to be done to his friend's voice. He consulted Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret, Victor's able handyman, who proceeded to memorize Caruso's interpretations, each long held note, each sob and sigh. Conductor Shilkret donned earphones, then summoned his orchestra and. listening to the old records, conducted new accompaniments which would time with them exactly. Through two loudspeakers in a separate control room Engineer Sooy listened to the tenor's rich tones. Shilkret's new setting. He combined them to produce a record which gives fresh lustre to the voice, completely obliterates the old tinny accompaniment.

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