CARUSO’S WEALTH

Southland Times, Issue 19658, 7 October 1922, Page 11 (Supplement)

CARUSO’S WEALTH

DAILY GRAMOPHONE RECORDS FOR HIS DAUGHTER. ROME August 14. The property left by the famous tenor, Caruso, in the United States and Italy, amounts to over fifty million francs (about two millions sterling at normal exchange). He had a wonderful collection of Renaissance bronzes, many of which had been purchased from Mr Pierpont Morgan, and these together with some priceless Limoges enamels, and a quantity of antique furniture and valuable glass and china, are all in his house at New York. One small bronze Madonna, which was Caruso’s specif favourite, has been brought to Italy, to be placed in the chapel erected over his tomb at Naples. Caruso possessed a collection of postage stamps worth forty thousand pounds, and this heUias left to his wife.

Caruso’s rights in gramophone records bring in half-a-million dollars a year. Shortly before his last illness he completed a contract for twenty-four records, and after his death they could not be reproduced fast enough to satisfy the public demand. One of these records is placed every day on the gramophone for his little daughter, Gloria, so that she may never forget her father’s voice. '