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...Mussolini, whose soul has lately been scarred almost beyond recognition, was at his desk in Rome. A few minutes after 10 o'clock, the telephone rang. San Giusto Airport, Pisa. An accident. Three killed, five injured. And one of the dead was Benito Mussolini's second boy Bruno; Bruno, the brown one, the good flyer...
...remembered the day when he pinned gold wings on Bruno's chest to make him, at 17, the youngest pilot in Italy. He remembered what the generals said about how the lad acquitted himself on bombing missions in Ethiopia. He remembered the speed records, the flight to Brazil. He remembered the necessity of recalling him from the Balearics during the Spanish war, because the Reds seemed to be gunning for the boy. This son was the real flyer. It was Vittorio, not Bruno, who made a spectacle of himself describing bombs as "budding roses," killing as "exceptionally good...
...John Barbirolli (the Philharmonic's contracted conductor), Boston's Serge Koussevitzky, Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens, Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, German Exiles Bruno Walter and Fritz Busch, Cleveland's Artur Rodzinski, Philadelphia's Stokowski, Manhattan's Walter Damrosch...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") in E Flat Major (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50; and NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor; 13 sides; $7). Two versions of Beethoven's heroic symphony whose original dedication to Napoleon Bonaparte was canceled because the Bonaparte pretensions displeased the composer, present the customers with a tough choice. The Walter version is warm, well-recorded the best of recent Philharmonic discs. The Toscanini job is full of Beethoven's energy, but the recording-taken from a radio performance-sounds boxy...
...There were a "novelty" (Gluck's Alceste) and eight operatic "revivals," some of them works which had been out of the repertory a mere three or four years. Best were those conducted by Bruno Walter: Mozart's Don Giovanni, Beethoven's Fidelio...