Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month in Italy a royal decree announced that Milan's famed La Scala opera would henceforth be under government control, that a Fascist commissioner would dictate its programs, the selection of artists. Many there were in Italy and the U. S. who linked this news with the resignation last fall of Arturo Toscanini after nine years as La Scala director. He, it is said, foresaw the Fascist rule. He, it is known, can brook no interference with a musical enterprise under his direction...
Early this fall the music world worried while Ignace Jan Paderewski, 69, underwent an operation for appendicitis in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 7). It marveled when he later announced that he would keep U. S. concert engagements scheduled for the winter and spring. Last week, however, he cabled his U. S. manager, George Engles...
...evidently required years in gestation, which is already being compared in England with Chaucer, Keats and Milton, should compensate for Laureate Bridges' silence. Indeed, it may prove to be the last utterance of the last of the Laureates, for the present Government talks of abolishing the post should it fall vacant in its tenure of office...
...leader of the Indo-China division of the Kelley-Roosevelts-Field Museum Expedition which returned from Indo-China in the fall of this year, Mr. Coolidge came into prominence in the press of this country. As a member of the Harvard African Expedition led by Dr. Strong in 1927, he was enabled to study the gorilla at first hand, in the mountains of the Eastern Belgian Congo. Since that time, through study in the museums of several countries, he has had access to the major part of the material available throughout the world upon the subject...
...Harvard University instrumental Clubs will give the second performance of the fall season at 8.30 o'clock Friday in the Hingham High School Auditorium, under the auspices of the Harvard Club of Hingham. Proceeds from the concert will be devoted to a fund for the establishment of a club scholarship...