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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and Strauss's Salome...
...Island & Pacific Railway Co. He took a nonsinging role in Roberta for two years, made his baritone debut last summer singing Gilbert & Sullivan in St. Louis and Central City, Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg's Jack & the Beanstalk, was engaged to repeat the performance. The latter role requires a shrill falsetto. Undaunted, Baritone Middleton boasted: "I have a freak voice, a peach of a falsetto. I'd make a good yodler...
...refuses him permission to leave home. That the annual long-distance swimming race at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto could be construed as an equivalent of the title which Carnera lost is exactly the sort of notion which an Italian would be likely to foster. Consequently when Swimmer Gianni Gambi was prematurely dragged out of Lake Ontario a year ago, half-frozen, exhausted and spluttering about the disgrace to Italy, no one was much surprised...
...cargo of 5,000 tons of guncotton and steel, remained till last week a menace to French coastal navigation. So spectacular have been the Artiglio's successes that a French warship hovered unobtrusively in the offing, taking notes. Overboard went the Artiglio's two chief divers, Alberto Gianni and S. Francesci. After them were lowered special mines which were intended to blow up the hulk of the Florence H. Suddenly the sea rose like a bubble, burst with a deafening roar into towers of spray. The little Artiglio was tossed in the air like a child...
...ship, 400 ft. down. Rough sea held up operations for several days, then a steel diving shell was slung over the side, equipped with oxygen tanks, a telephone, inch-thick glass observation windows. Youngest of the Artiglio's divers, Alberto Bargellini, went down. Director of Operations Alberto Gianni hung breathlessly on the other end of the telephone. Tense minutes of waiting. Director Alberto fretted, cried into the transmitter: "What...