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...autumn opened the first municipal opera house in the U. S., one of the world's finest music theatres (TIME, Oct. 17). The chorus was composed of local amateurs. Orchestramen were borrowed from the San Francisco Symphony. The whole enterprise was characteristic of the audacity with which Impresario Gaetano Merola rounded up a San Francisco Opera Association ten years ago, collected membership dues running from $50 to $100 a head and proceeded to put on ambitious performances with rehearsals so sketchy as to be hair-raising...
...auditorium is built on the European plan. It seats 3,285, one-third again as many as the Paris Opera, but 200 less than the Chicago house, 500 less than the Metropolitan. Scalpers are getting $100 a pair for tickets, a fact which greatly delights Impresario Gaetano Merola, for last spring his committee was hesitant about putting on the 1932 season. After nine years' experience with Merola they should have known better than to hesitate...
...steep sides of the great bowl built of spruce boards in Madison Square Garden, bicycle riders raced in the 40th International Six-Day Race. Old Reggie MacNamara, a champion twelve years ago and still strong though no longer fast, was entered; so was big, blond, popular Charles Winter; Gaetano Belloni's wild mane of crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road team, but they yelled loudest for their favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately...
These 16 stories and sketches, written in romantic turn-of-the-Century style, are based on incidents of Dr. Munthe's early career as an interne in Paris, a doctor in Naples. Italy is Dr. Munthe's love, and even his Parisian subjects are Italians in exile: Hurdygurdler Don Gaetano, Tragic Poet Monsieur Alfredo, Model Raffaella. Though his tales are by nature grim, Author Munthe has whimsied them into wistfulness which never quite loses an old-fashioned charm. His humor is of the same mellow vintage. On a vacation at Ischia he struck up a friendship with a donkey. "Each...
Winter is the usual season for im portant opera but California takes hers in the autumn when famed singers are available. San Francisco and Los Angeles have separate sponsoring associations but the artists headed by Italian Conductor Gaetano Merola are practically the same. San Francisco hears them first, gives her verdict (TIME, Sept. 22). Then, as last week, they move on to the rival city...