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...Approach. In Lawrence, Mass., Milton Niport, turned down when he asked for a job as assistant manager of the Palace Theater, waited 45 minutes, then held up Manager Guido Lumenello, escaped with...
...picture first came to light in London 33 years ago. An Italian nobleman, the Marchese Guido Serra di Cassano, was decorating a town house by buying wholesale lots of pictures at a few pounds apiece. Browsing about one run-down little antique shop, he spied a medium-sized (29 in. by 24½ in.) canvas, showing an aged man in dark brown coat and dark velvet hat, staring moodily out at the world with large, pained eyes. The dealer was glad to include the picture in the sale for an extra $25. Then the marquis had it cleaned, and experts...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Guido Cantelli...
...seldom used an excessive gesture, but who drew from his orchestra music of clarity and fire. "Hats off, gentlemen, a conductor!" cried the critic of the Boston Post at the top of his review. "There can be no shadow of a doubt," said the Herald critic, "that Guido Cantelli belongs in the very first rank of the orchestral conductors of our time...
Last month Chicago critics did similar cartwheels after Cantelli guest-conducted the Chicago Symphony. Wrote the Tribune's tart-tongued Claudia Cassidy: "Just what it is, the spark that sets some artists blazing, nobody knows. But Guido Cantelli has it." Burbled the Herald-American: "He is sensational without resorting to sensationalism . . . original without being extreme . . . Boards of directors: file this young man for future reference." London critics, when they heard him conduct the brilliant London Philharmonia last year, wrote to the same effect...