Word: carlo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French modernist composers, Darius Milhaud. But what held them in their seats and sent them home happy was the light, tripping music and witty text of a little musical farce called Amelia Goes to the Ball, by an unknown graduate of the Institute, a youngster of 25 named Gian-Carlo Menotti. Next year Amelia made the Metropolitan, was so successful that it became a permanent part of the Met's repertory...
...Gian-Carlo Menotti got most of his musical education at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, but he speaks English with an Italian accent, still regards Italy, where his family lives, as his home. In Manhattan, where he now spends most of the winter, Composer Menotti inhabits a penthouse which was originally a water tank, on the roof of an uptown apartment building...
...York County's sleuthing young District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week acted on a tip from no less a master of sleuthing than Author E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim. Sunning his shrewd old head in Monte Carlo, Author Oppenheim had dispatched a cable to District Attorney Dewey. Result was the apprehension of a gentleman who in life is as suave and distinguished as any of Oppenheim's international intriguers...
Despite the dire end predicted for old Gustl by Bemelmans' boss (who said Bemelmans would end up no better), Gustl retired to a pleasant little cottage in Monte Carlo. "It's always wonderful." Bemelmans mused, "when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police...
These will remain on display until November nineteenth, along with a special exhibition of the Russian Ballet and old prints of ballet dancers, arranged for the visit of the Ballet Russe de Monto Carlo...