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...dither last month were San Francisco financial circles over the well-authenticated report that potent Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini had testily refused to list a new issue of Transamerica Corp. stock on the San Francisco Exchange until benign President Frank Shaughnessy resigned (TIME, Aug. 16). Since Transamerica for years had been the busiest stock on the San Francisco Exchange, this gave brokers, already scratching for commissions, a real matter for worry. The squabble grew out of old "A. P.'s" decision to turn Transamerica, once the world's largest bank holding company, into an investment trust. One move...
...company to release to exhibitors. Of the producers who release through United Artists, two have bought partnerships in the firm: Sam Goldwyn (1926) and Alexander Korda (1935). Last week, after nine days of conferences coinciding with United Artists' annual board meeting, the company's President Attilio Henry Giannini announced that United Artists' two newest partners had arranged to buy out its three remaining old ones...
While his sister toured Europe, Vittorio was. content to stay home studying. From the Juilliard he went to Rome on the Horatio Parker Fellowship. In April 1934 Mother Giannini died, a few months be fore Vittorio had his turn at being a sensation. At the world premiere of his first opera, Lucedia, a finicky Munich audience called him before the curtain 22 times. There was a rumor that Lucedia would be put on at the Metropolitan with Dusolina singing the title role, but this has never materialized...
...Mass for his mother. At its world premiere in Vienna last week, the performers alone would have made it notable. A chorus from the Society of the Friends of Music united with the Wiener Sängerknaben Choir to sing with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. As leading soprano, Dusolina Giannini soloed eloquently for her dead mother...
...permission, fearing that destruction of the bridge during a war would cork the harbor. Shipping interests fought it bitterly and the Government finally imposed a high-tide clearance 100 ft. higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused to help, as did most banks. Then Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America took the bonds which financed it.* These preliminaries at last over, the builders faced what Joe Strauss called "the most diffi cult engineering feat ever tackled." Three years of construction overcame this obstacle...