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...Ezio Pinza, dashing basso of the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years, sat on Ellis Island while a substitute Mephistopheles sang at the winter season's last matinee. Italian-born Basso Pinza, who had eleven touring dates, also had one with an examining board: he was in the hands of the FBI as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. His second wife, American Doris Leak Pinza, and his mother-in-law described him as an enthusiastic, 100% American. "He never even met Mussolini," declared his wife. Fretted her mother: "I hope they don't hurt his feelings. He is very...
There is one Manhattan publishing house the less since a Federal jury found sleek, Italian-born Carlo M. Flumiani guilty on 12 charges of mail fraud last fortnight. This week Judge Simon H. Rifking sentenced him to 18 months in jail, a $2,500 fine. But nobody will miss Fortuny, Inc., or Publisher Flumiani. A particularly heartless and lucrative operator in what is known to the book trade as "vanity publishing," Publisher Flumiani was convicted of mulcting, since 1935, several thousand gullible authors of around $500.000 by making them pay for the publication of their books-mostly tripe...
...Italian-born Monsignor Bosetti went to Denver 30 years ago. He became music director of the diocese, director of the cathedral choir, which is permanently endowed by Socialite Mrs. Verner Z. Reed. Monsignor Bosetti's operas, which by now have run through the whole standard repertory, are" events for Denver, which otherwise hears only bedraggled touring troupes, and free, open-air summer productions sponsored by the Denver Post...
...head of the Art Commission is an Italian-born editor named OttorinoRonchi. When he heard that Sculptor Johnson had made a model, he exploded, accused the sculptor and WPA of trying to rush the Commission into giving its official O.K. Inspecting the model, Mr. Ronchi clapped his hands to his head, exclaimed: "It's like having the hiccups! It jerks! It doesn't knit together! It has bad composition! It looks like the figures are pasted to the wall! It hasn't a flowing line from beginning to end! It. ... It. ... It. ... Ah. now. take Benny Bufano...
Second newcomer was Italian-born Soprano Hilde Reggiani, hit of last year's Chicago opera season. Small, plump, 25, she cooed a coy Gilda to Lawrence Tibbett's towering Rigoletto, hit super-high Ds and Es with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...