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Italy has had a visible sense of humor, from the time of the commedia dell 'arte. Italians can still crack jokes (however unoriginal) about their miseries. From Lisbon last week New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, on his way home from Rome, sent revealing samples: > Benito Mussolini visited a fortuneteller who told him that he would die on the eve of Italy's greatest holiday. She was unable to tell him just which day that was. When he asked his wife her opinion, she replied: "I know. It's the day after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Time for Comedy | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Once about two years ago I asked my Uncle Wade O'Dell at Liberty, S.C., if he had ever heard the Hanks story. He began to tell me what he had heard and as he was talking my Aunt Bettie came into the room. She said with indignation, "I'm not going to hear that story another time," and she went off to prayer meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...female roles for both play have been drawn from the Katherine Gibbs, Katheline Dell, Academe Moderne, and New England Conservatory of Music Schools. Filling this half of the dramatis personae are Misses Priscilla Freeman, Marilyn Matson, Ruth Bersted, Valerie Proctor, Elizabeth Collins, Janet Griswald, Ulla Hanson, Priscilla Patch, and Isadora Falcao...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thespians Decide On Two Fall Season Plays | 11/13/1941 | See Source »

Well, the summer season's over, and taken all in all it was a good season. More people than ever before flocked to the musical attractions at the Hollywood Bowl, the Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell, the Lewisohn Stadium and the Berkshire Festival, making it obvious to all eyes that the Americans are fast becoming the most music-loving and music-conscoius public in the world, if they haven't become so already...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 9/26/1941 | See Source »

Last week Benny Goodman, before departing for Chicago, attracted 10,000 people to Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell for the concert José Iturbí refused to conduct (TIME, July 7). Clarinetist Goodman not only rippled through the Mozart concerto, with Edwin McArthur conducting, but he waved a stick-a pencil-over the Philadelphia Orchestra in the première of a Tango by Stravinsky. Drawled Benny later: "I felt kinda funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Back to Chicago | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

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