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...bank examiners issued no premature estimate of possible losses. City Trust Co., with its main offices and four branches, had deposits of $7,300,000. Its president, F. M. Ferrari, had died Feb. 2. There followed rumors of bad investments, of unsound conditions. It will be months before definite announcement of settlement will be made. Meanwhile depositors have only the comfort of knowing that their demands will be satisfied before those of stockholders...
Once this famed stamp, the "British Guiana 1856" belonged to Philippe la Rénotière von Ferrari, an odd curmudgeon whose collection was bought by Mr. Hind (textiles). Count Ferrari lived in a castle at 57 Rue de Varennes, Paris, which his mother had willed to the Austrian Embassy in order that her son might live under the Austrian flag. In that gaunt house Von Ferrari kept the only copy of the Boscawen (N. H.) stamp, the Lockport (N. Y.) stamp, and one of the Hawaiian "missionary"* stamps. These Mr. Hind, now admittedly the world's foremost...
...five hours 30,000 Fascists stood waiting in the Piazza Ferrari, the largest square in Genoa, to hear Signer Mussolini. He came, stirred them to frenzy, departed, slept for the night in the Palazzo Ducale, once the Palace of the Doges...
...York was organized, played for seven seasons with success; a Women's String Quartet was acclaimed, in Manhattan, in 1897. There have been innumerable famed women composers, instrumental virtuosos, of every nationality-Clara Schumann, wife of the great German composer, Robert Schumann; Mrs. Chazal, English composer, pianist; Carlotta Ferrari, foremost woman composer of Italy; Teresa Carreiia, Venezuela. Ethel Leginska has frequently been given public attention when she conducted orchestras (TIME, Jan. 19). A woman, Saint Cecelia, is the patron saint of Music. At all these notable women, male musicians have sniffed now and again. Other women, or sympathetic males...
...Italy, however, that the opera-industry really flourishes, as always. There Maestro Zandonai has already written a four-act Legende, Maestro Giordano his new Cene Beffe, Wolf-Ferrari (composer of The Jewels of the Madonna) his La Veste di Crilo and modernist Malipiero has completed no less than three "lyrical comedies...