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...magazine paid me for it." Living off his cartoons for Bertoldo, a satirical fortnightly, Steinberg in his early 20s could afford a reasonable facsimile of the boulevardier life he had read about as a child in Anatole France: buying new neckties in the Galleria, lounging in the Ristorante Biffi. "I had the rare, beautiful pleasure of making money out of something I enjoyed doing and then spending as soon as I made it. As I lunched, I knew that this was my cat?I mean my drawing of a cat?that I was consuming; followed by a tree, the moon...
...invitation to return next season. Says La Scala Artistic Director Francesco Siciliani: "If he could do so much with Gershwin, imagine how he will make Puccini sound!" Yet for all the accolades, Lewis says he felt he had really arrived when, after opening night, he visited the elegant Biffi Scala, which is to Milano operagoers what Sardi's is to Broadway theater. At his appearance, the chef marched out of the kitchen, cried "Bravissimo, maestro!" and pointed to the latest addition to the menu-a beef fillet smothered in a sauce made of mustard, cognac, sour cream...
Musicians great & small, obscure impresarios, shabby maestros, raffish editors, theatrical agents, garrulous critics: these compose a group which congregates in the Caffè Biffi in the great Galleria (Arcade) Vittorio Emanuele near Milan's La Scala Opera. Drinking vermouth con seltz by the hour, the clique finds much to gossip about. In July 1930, its conversation might have run like this: "So! So! A woman in La Scala. . . . Our Colombo, per l'amor di dio, our dove! What will become of the opera, with her in charge? That professoressa? Shocking...