Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encountered no serious trouble until crossing the Bay of Bengal. About 150 mi. off Rangoon a water pump broke. Down came the plane upon a tossing sea. An S O S brought a British steamer which towed her into Rangoon. As casually as before, the plane flew on to Colombo, Bombay, Bagdad. Athens, Rome, across the Alps in a storm to Friedrichshafen...
...loves to build up an idol, making it far greater than it deserves, and then with equal fickleness tearing it down with all the savagery of an enraged chipmunk. I have known many men who 'croon' who are as fine and good friends as one could wish--Downey, Vallee, Colombo, and others...
Kathryn O'Gorman Hammer is still the zealous, domineering director of Philadelphia's Grand Opera Company (the world's only woman opera-director since Anita Colombo was eased out of her position at La Scala) but in five years her position has radically changed. No longer does she haggle over prices or stitch costumes. She wears orchids, travels abroad to engage talent. Prosperity came in 1929 when Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis, decided to support the company, to use it partly as an outlet for opera talent in the Curtis...
...replace Anita Colombo, able directrix of La Scala Opera in Milan who lost her job last month, partly because of her friendship with anti-Fascist Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Sept. 28), a rich Venetian and pioneer Fascist was appointed: Erardo Trentinaglia. Esteemed in Italy as a composer and conductor, Signor Trentinaglia planned first to shorten La Scala's season, cut down on novelties...
...substituted ably. Then in June 1930, Director Scandiani died. The Government had suspended La Scala's "Autonomous Corporation," appointed wealthy Senatore Borletti to be Royal Commissioner (dictator) of the opera. Under the supervision of Benito Mussolini, he was empowered to select a new director. He picked Signorina Colombo. The Press raged. People held mass-meetings. A woman? It was unthinkable. But someone sagely pointed out that Miss Colombo's most useful qualities?energy, firmness, business sense?seemed to be Teutonic in origin, were not likely to be imitated by Italian ladies. This mollified a few critics...