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Internationally renowned Italian tenor Tito Schipa is the whole show in Vivere (To Live). He plays a rakish widower whose love-'em-and-leave-'em philosophy has gained him fame throughout Europe. The only person whom Schipa truly cares about is his virginal daughter, played by Caterina Boratto. Somewhat hypocritically, he refuses to give Boratto permission to marry, which turns out to have disastrous consequences. The tear-stained climax finds Schipa saving his daughter from the brink of death by singing her favorite aria over a long-distance telephone wire.