Word: grandy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, plump, curly-haired Dorothy, 26-a soprano hardly anyone in London had ever heard of-found herself in the studio of His Majesty's Voice recording company. The famed star of the Milan Opera, Madame Margherita Grandi, was making a recording of the sleepwalking scene from Verdi's Macbeth. Suddenly, right at the end, Madame Grandi shut her mouth, and Dorothy took over. She sang three notes-F, A flat, and top D flat. For her pains, she got a slight bow from Madame Grandi and 5 guineas ($21.15). Then she went home...
From Milan, Madame Grandi assured her British public that she really could sing top D flat herself. "But sometimes," she confided, "I am under such emotion, that it is a help ... if someone can sing it for me." London music lovers did not much like this explanation. It soon developed that Madame Grandi had been under similar emotion at last year's Edinburgh Festival, and had used another ghost, standing in the wings, for the same three notes. How much of this kind of thing went on? Apparently Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the orchestra for the recording...
...will be easy to maintain order. King Vittorio Emanuele will then probably abdicate in favor of his son, who will restore Italy's pre-Fascist constitution. He will also invite the President of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations to act as the Premier. This is Dino Grandi, former Fascist Ambassador to London, who is rumored to have engineered Mussolini's downfall. "After [Archbishop] Spellman's visit to the Vatican," Salvemini notes darkly, "[Grandi] was made a 'cousin to the King...
Feeble Alternatives. Only a few non-Fascist political figures, liberal or conservative, have survived Mussolini's more than 20 years of one-man rule. Among the few in Italy are Vittorio Orlando and Ivanoe Bonomi, both pre-Mussolini premiers; bearded Count Dino Grandi, onetime Ambassador to London, and intellectual Giuseppe Bottai, former Minister of Education. All are ineffective and out of touch with the Italian people...
Stooges and Rumors. The other changes put Party nonentities in the places of such men as Count Dino Grandi di Mordano, a moderate who was once Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and Alessandro Pavolini, one of the few Fascist bigwigs with administrative ability...