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...tyranny. Before Magna Charta and King John, Italy's northern cities had won self-rule from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Florence and Venice had once borne the title of republic. But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph and Ghibelline, despot and noble, rival Spaniard, Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with the iron crown of Lombardy. In Milan, in 1848, the Habsburg General Count Joseph Radetzky had smashed the people's barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento...
Died. Walter Scott, 70, Canadian newspaper publisher and first Premier of Saskatchewan (1905-16); of heart disease; in Guelph...
Eduardo di Giovanni. Guelph, Ontario, was first to discover Edward Johnson's musical leanings when, at 5, he piped Throw Out the Life Line in a Sunday-school concert. When he was studying law at the University of Western Ontario, he skipped out before the spring examinations, got a job soloing in Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church, later earned $700 a week singing Lieut. Niki in Oscar Straus's A Waltz Dream. Money saved therefrom took him to Italy where he studied under Caruso's old teacher Vincenzo Lombardi. Cynical old Lombardi said he would make...
...Guelph, where he still goes to vacation, Edward Johnson has given $25,000 to establish music in the public schools. In Manhattan his longtime ambition has been to build up a training organization where young native artists could gain operatic experience even if they happened to be named Smith or Jones or Johnson. Having sung patiently and courteously with such novices as Mary Lewis and Grace Moore, Manager Johnson wisely promised that young aspirants would have a chance to attain a "natural growth" in a supplementary season. Said he: "I feel that the American artist has never been properly presented...
...money. As a singer Tenor Johnson was always popular with his colleagues. Yet unlike many of them he had kept closely in touch with the everyday people who make up audiences. Johnson is a golfer, a Mason, a Rotarian. He has remained as unpretentious as his townsfolk in Guelph, Ontario, who now prize his portrait in Guelph Town Hall but who once wondered at a youth so incalculable that he would turn his back on the ministry and the law, set out on his own for Manhattan...