Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, October 11, under AERONAUTICS it is stated that Lieutenant Castro of Chile was the first of all flyers to cross the Andes.-In reality the first man to do this feat was Lieutenant Antonio Locatelli- Aug. 1919, of the Italian Aviation Corps...
...huge defense fund to show that they thought Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti had been convicted unjustly. The defense says that in 1920 the U. S. was on a militant radical hunt, and so used a murder conviction as a speedy method of getting rid of two Italian radicals who had harmed...
...singers: Sopranos: Elda Vettori of St. Louis; Martha Attwood of Baltimore; Louise Lerch of Allentown (Pa.), pupil of Marcella Sembrich; Editha Fleischer, who came to the U. S. several seasons ago with the Wagnerian Opera Company; Tenors: Walter Kirchov, German, onetime member of the Berlin Royal Opera; Alfio Tedesco, Italian; Bassos: Joseph Macpherson, 25, son of a Nashville (Tenn.) clergyman, whose voice was discovered at a camp meeting; Pavel Ludikar, Czech; Ezio Pinza, Italian, famed in his own country and in South America, to make his debut the opening night; Baritone: George Cehanovsky, Russian...
There will be a new solo danseuse?Ruth Page, of Indianapolis, member once of Anna Pavlowa's company, and hitherto notable for her dancing in John Alden Carpenter's Birthday of the Infanta with the Chicago Opera; most important, a new conductor to strengthen further the Italian wing ?Vincenzo Bellezza, Roman, to make his Metropolitan debut with The Jewels of the Madonna during the season's first week...
...that he has nearly all the best obtainable. . . . The American artist? Mr. Gatti heaves a mighty sigh. He might quote a few figures, that of his 93 principals 37 are Americans, that the strength of his native wing is three times that of the German, twice that of the Italian, 33 times that of the French. But being Mr. Gatti-Casazza and little given to explanation in English, he will probably throw up his hands, say "Find me an American Caruso!" turn on his heel and go about his business, imperturbable again, dignified, the very personification of authority...