Word: gianninis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Instead of silencing conjecture, the big Ball gift generated a swarm of new stories. Hearst's New York American "learned exclusively" that California Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini's Transamerica Corp., through Bancamerica-Blair Corp., had been negotiating for Midamerica's 2,064,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock which it holds in the complex Van Sweringen corporate setup. But old Mr. Giannini denied this...
Many a man is made by catastrophe. Ulysses Simpson Grant was made by the Civil War. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini was made by the San Francisco Fire. Noah and Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence Addison Dykstra were alike floated up to eminence by a flood. Last week City Manager Dykstra, the most prominently mentioned candidate to succeed ousted Glenn Frank as President of the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Dec. 28; Jan. 18), met three of the University's Progressive regents in Chicago to discuss the job. He did not like having his salary cut from Cincinnati...