Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Going to Town. Now the most preposterous refugees of all had washed into Switzerland-the Italian Fascists. At the Palace Hotel could be met such old-time friends of the Count as Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, widow of the Fascist foreign minister whom her father had had shot. With her was her latest lover, dandified Marchese Pucci, who had helped whisk her across the Swiss frontier when Mussolini fell. This strange pair descended periodically from their snug mountain chalet to dance, dine and wine...
...Alfieri, once Italian propaganda minister and ambassador to Berlin, shunned the Roman revels at the Palace Hotel. He preferred his own serious set at the swank Golf & Sport Hotel at Crans-sur-Sierre. For Alfieri was talking about forming a new political party, still dreaming about returning to Italy. Count Volpi shook his head...
...brave new world that the Fascists had done so much to create, the idea of sanctuary was less & less respected. Powerful pressure might be exerted across the Swiss frontiers. Well might Count Volpi brood upon the thought that by the time this spring's magnolia petals had fallen, he might be a good deal less reflective and a good deal more frightened...
When the deep-chested young singer from County Limerick had finished his arias and folk songs, the room clattered with applause. Even hearty old Tenor (and Papal Count) John McCormack said of 23-year-old Singer Christopher ("Christy") Lynch: "He is the one most likely to succeed me. ... A very beautiful voice ... I have not heard better in a quarter of a century...
This week Count McCormack was busily arranging for curly-haired Christy Lynch's operatic debut with the Dublin Grand Opera Society. "I want especially," said McCormack, "to see him make his first operatic appearance in Dublin . . . singing in The Tales of Hoffmann which I sang myself many years ago many times...