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Mario Lanza’s beautiful voice singing Victor Herbert’s Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life is combined with photos of renown silent film legends Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and wife Mary Pickford along with film footage of ice skating medal winners Sergei Grinkov and Ekaterina Gordeeva. Composer Victor Herbert (1859 - 1924) , wrote “Ah! Sweet mystery of life“, which was published 1910. “Victor Herbert was an American by adoption. Herbert was born in Dublin, Ireland on February 1, 1859 and later (1886) came to America and stayed with us. Herbert made his greatest contribution to America's music as a composer and writer of Operettas, many of which remain in the popular repertoire to this day. From the many songs he wrote for his operettas came many individual song hits that resonated with the American public and peoples around the world….Among the many songs that came out of this operetta (Naughty Marietta) was one of his grandest and most memorable, Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life.” (Above quote
