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...over Italy schoolboys were delighted when Dr. Gaetano Martino was appointed Italy's new Foreign Minister. As Minister of Education, Dr. Martino had cracked down on the comfortable Italian habit of turning out thousands of ignorant youngsters with college degrees and a smattering of Latin while training too few mechanics and skilled workers. "Flunk without pity lazy or stupid students," he ordered examiners. As a result, June exams became known as "the slaughter of the innocents...
...week's end Artistic Director Kurt Herbert Adler (successor to the San Francisco Opera's founder, the late Gaetano Merola) had reason to be satisfied with the way his first season was going. With his divas backed by a solid company (including Metropolitan Opera Singers Richard Tucker, Leonard Warren and Lorenzo Alvary), he could be sure of top musical quality for the next six weeks. Adler has another novelty in store for next month: the first U.S. performance in operatic form of Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake, with Cinemactress Dorothy McGuire speaking the name...
Submerged in Mud. At this point, Scelba finally accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Piccioni. "I feel that my place must be beside my son," he said. As new Foreign Minister, Scelba upgraded his Education Minister, Gaetano Martino. No longer did it seem possible to stifle the Montesi case with a conspiracy of silence...
...Devil (Italian Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni) was gusty enough to shake the chandeliers. Visiting Met Stars Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce (as Marguerite and Faust) brought down the house with their prison scene. Nonetheless, there was a sense of melancholy on both sides of the footlights: General Director Gaetano Merola, the man who founded the company 30 years ago and built it to second rank in the U.S. (after the Met), had died two weeks before the opening (TIME, Sept. 7). The prologue's angels sang their harmonies almost as a Requiem...
...Died. Gaetano Merola, 72, Neapolitan-born founder-director of the San Francisco Opera Company; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Conductor Merola went to San Francisco in 1921, survived two years in money-losing concert ventures to cajole Nob Hill society and ordinary citizens into backing their own city opera company. He launched his first season in 1923, prospered thereafter...