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...Italy they have an old custom which allows a taxpayer to declare his own income for purposes of local taxation, subject to correction by a commission of his fellow citizens. The tendency is to lie and let lie. In the town of Guastalla (pop. 6,000), which sprawls peacefully along the banks of the Po River, the president of the local tax commission is a Communist. Professor Remo Salati, who wears a double-breasted suit like Communist Leader Togliatti and imitates Togliatti's manner of talking, also has access to federal tax returns in which taxpayers, in the face...
Next day hundreds crowded city hall, sure that there must be some mistake. But there wasn't. The mayor called a meeting of protest, but the Socialist-Communist majority on the town council upheld Salati's assessments. Then a strange thing occurred in the quiet town of Guastalla. Businessmen and shopkeepers called for a six-hour strike against Salati. Every bar and shop in town closed. Local factories sent their workers home. Buses ceased running. Even the Communist-run cooperative store shut its door (for this, Manager Affro Tavernelli was later relieved of his party card). Guastalla became...
...week's end, Communist Taxmaster Salati was still standing his ground-but so were Guastalla's taxpayers...
Last week La Campana Sommersa, the music by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla taken from Hauptmann's play, had its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Rautendelein was still its inspiration, Heinrich still the heckled human. And for it all Respighi had made lovely, lyric music. But operatic singers, operatic trappings rarely enhance a poetic mood. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg as Rautendelein managed her bulk skillfully, sang difficult music easily, spent clear high notes' lavishly. But her appearance, her acting left little illusion. Nor could Giovanni Martinelli forget he was a tenor...
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