Word: giorgios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Meanwhile, as a background for the social business of the evening -antics of begemmed matrons, observations of a grim explorer, dreams of a musician who is Vice President of the U.S.-the suave, characterless music dipped along, helped with all the resources of Rosa Raisa's opulent voice. Giorgio Polacco conducted...
...Born. To Giorgio Polacco, 50, musical director and chief conductor of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, and Mrs. Polacco (Edith Mason), 32, famed soprano, a daughter; in Milan, Italy...