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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Mariano contributed to the Nobile Saga, last week, another and still more bizarre account of how he and Captain Zappi left the Swedish scientist Dr. Finn Malmgren to die upon the Arctic ice (TIME, Aug. 6). Said Mariano: "When the unavoidable separation from Malmgren came and we dug him a trench we told him we would halt 100 yards away and wait there twenty-four hours in case he changed his mind and considered himself able to continue. We did this, and when we saw him, on one occasion, lift his head we shouted, 'Come on, Malmgren...
...Mariano, a Soviet plane photographed them from the air, and that a third man or his remains was then visible, prostrate on the ice. Tass told that when Captain Zappi was rescued he said that Dr. Malmgren had been left behind some days previously (at his own request) to die. Tass stated that Captain Zappi was wearing, when rescued, Dr. Malmgren's fur boots and coat, and two other pairs of fur boots and two other coats-whereas Zappi's comrade, Captain Mariano, seemed sick, weak, and wore no fur boots...
...grieve only that your youth does not permit you to go with me. If I die, I admonish you always to be a slave to duty, to your country, to your sister, your two aunts and the stepmother who has served you as a mother. This must be to you a sacred duty, and to it you must consecrate your life...
Musical festivals are part of the summer in Teutonic Europe. This is really Schubert's year and will be so observed in Vienna. Bayreuth, however, has its usual Wagner festival with four weeks of Tristan, Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, ending August 16; Munich has a Wagner-Mozart'Festival from the end of July until August...
...Metropolitan Opera Company enjoys many unique advantages, none more noticeable than the prestige and humility which greets every pronouncement made by its Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Last week he announced plans for the coming year. There would be several premieres including: Strauss's already famous Die Aegyptische Helena, in German, with presumably Rethberg or Jeritza, both of whom have sung the role in Europe, singing Helen; Fra Gherardo, Ildebrando Pizzetti's new opera which was sung for the first time a month ago in Milan; and Jonny Spielt Auf, by Ernst Krenek, which is called a "jazz" opera...