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...what success the music wins is due mainly to Conductor Giorgio Polacco. Two decades ago he came to the U. S. from Italy, lavished his talent on scattered engagements. In 1915 he substituted for Toscanini as chief conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan. Later he was called to assist the great Cleofonte Campanini as director of the Chicago Opera, married Edith Mason, singer. Now he makes music out of even La Cena Delle Beffe...
...seasons now, was brought out for the debut of Elsa Alsen, a very worthy Isolde. Rigoletto had its turn, Il Trovatore, a Sunday matinee of Carmen, the second week opening with Lucia. Chicagoans were well-pleased-with the first week list and the singers, with the able direction of Giorgio Polacco, with the fact that the subscription sale this year has been much greater than ever...
...Mussolini (née Guidi) and their daughter Edda, now recovering from an attack of diphtheria. During the week, Signor Mussolini, once the loudest and most often vocal of European statesmen pursued his recent "policy of silence" (TIME, May 3) by issuing three written orders: Sicilian Riots. General di Giorgio to proceed at once to Sicily with an armed force and full authority to put down the seemingly concerted series of anti-Fascist riots which have been occurring recently in Palermo, Caltanisetta and Girgenti. Universal Silence. All Fascists were "commanded" by a manifesto to "keep silent about any local strife...
...band of Romanies from the break-up of their winter camp in New Hampshire to their arrival at a Vermont council ground in the autumn. In particular, it follows the wooing of pantherlike young Panna, the chief's daughter, by Milanko, the tumbler, and Yurka, the half-giorgio* fiddler; and reflects the changing of gypsy ways from mooching along in bright-painted horse-vans to flitting over the country in shiny automobiles. Whether or not some of the language is highflown-and whether or not gypsies ever caught chickens by dragging past a farmyard a fishhook baited with corn...
...Boston-Chicago Opera Association will probably set the evening of January 26 for the event. The opera then to be given is Wagner's Walkuere. Cyrena Van Gordon, Olga Forrai, Alexander Kipnis, Augusta Lenska, Forrest Lamont and Edouard Cotreuil will be the vocal artists of the evening. Giorgio Polacco, musical director of the organization, will conduct the orchestra...