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Midgley launched into the Duke of Mantua's first big aria. "I felt fine. Every word was a joy." "La costanza tiranna del core detestiamo qual morbo crudele,"* he sang-and sucked in a deep breath to go on. In the same instant, off came the left wing of his mustache. Carried on the air stream, it disappeared down the tenor's throat...
...days, to Nice, six and a half. In actual traveling time the octopi of Naples' famed Aquarium will be but one junket day farther from Manhattan than the Ritz Bar in Paris. Though head of no line, the driving force behind Italian shipping is short, bull-necked Count Costanza Ciano. Mussolini's closest associate. His son wed Mussolini's daughter Edda. Into Count Ciano's stout fists, Mussolini put the post office, the telegraph, all the railroads and last year all the shipping, of Italy. It was Count Ciano who arranged the mergers of Italy...
Roman music lovers saw in a sudden rapid shifting of Italian orchestra directors the coordinating influence of Mussolini from whose dictation not even Italian artists are exempt. Arturo Toscanini, for years illustriously inseparable from La Scala in Milan, will reputedly conduct this winter at Costanza Opera in Rome. At La Scala it is whispered that the baton of Bernardino Molinari will flicker. Neapolitans, devotees of the famed San Carlos Opera will hail as their chief conductor, this winter, Tullio Serafin, long a brilliant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. Pietro Mascagni will go to the Augustep, chief concert hall...
...must to all men, Death came to Giacomo Puccini, famed composer, at Brussels, Belgium, where he had gone for radium treatment for tumor of the throat. Weakened by the treatment, he died of a heart attack. While he lay dying, his opera Madame Butterfly was being presented at the Costanza Theatre, Rome. On the day of his death, his opera La Boheme was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, where, after the third act, Chopin's Funeral March was played by the orchestra. In Italy, Premier Mussolini announced that Puccini's funeral would be paid...
...Costanza, a bad sea-night's voyage from Constantinople, is a miserable port but about the only port Rumania has. It was haunted last week by Italian destroyers...