Word: alfredo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sketches, written in romantic turn-of-the-Century style, are based on incidents of Dr. Munthe's early career as an interne in Paris, a doctor in Naples. Italy is Dr. Munthe's love, and even his Parisian subjects are Italians in exile: Hurdygurdler Don Gaetano, Tragic Poet Monsieur Alfredo, Model Raffaella. Though his tales are by nature grim, Author Munthe has whimsied them into wistfulness which never quite loses an old-fashioned charm. His humor is of the same mellow vintage. On a vacation at Ischia he struck up a friendship with a donkey. "Each morning came my neighbor...
Next week Manhattanites may expect to see billboards and subway placards advertising "Opera at the Polo Grounds." Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi will offer Aida in New York's big baseball park on Aug. 2, second annual presentation. Last year's outdoor Aida drew crowds who cannot afford Metropolitan opera seats, can afford Polo Ground opera at $1. Encouraged by success, Maestro Salmaggi has swelled this year's cast to 1,000, has added three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp...
...name once more. For a new conductor was at the helm ? handsome Arthur Fiedler, a native Bostonian, son of a Symphony fiddler, who last year scored a success at the outdoor concerts on the Charles River Basin Esplanade (TIME, July 29). Young Fiedler knows better than his predecessor, Alfredo Casella, what Bostonians want. He would give them, he had promised, no second session of unmixed serious fare. There would be generous quantities of light, easy music and the opening program, in Symphony Hall refurbished, was as good as his word. It included favorites like Whispering Flowers, Pomp and Circumstance...
...Joseph Hall of San Francisco, 44-year-old cue-wielder: the national amateur three cushion billiard championship, beating one Frank Fleming 50 to 37 in 78 innings in a dull, cautious game in French Lick, Ind. ¶ The Argentine polo team-Manuel Andrada, Jose and Juan Reynal, Alfredo Harrington-handicapped at 23 goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. ¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout...
Recently the President of the academy, a senator named Tommaso Tittoni, was stricken with paralysis. A prominent member, Professor Alfredo Trombetti, went swimming at the Lido last summer, drowned in the lukewarm Adriatic. Giocchino Volpe, secretary of the academy, has had three recent operations on his defective ear. But of all the academicians, most luckless is Antonio Beltramelli, Fascist author of Il Uomo Nuovo, "The New Man," a paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor...