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...immigrant Italian organist, Dello Joio likes to think of himself as a spiritual descendant of Verdi. Blood Moon tells the story of Ninette Lafont, a beautiful octoroon actress who flees New Orleans on the eve of the Civil War to forget her doomed love for Raymond Barlac, a Southern aristocrat. The wide-ranging plot, based on Dello Joio's own scenario, gave Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian ample scope for lush sets that imparted a sense of grandeur to the opera's five scenes. American Soprano Mary Costa, who played Ninette, sang beautifully but seemed lost in the schmalz...
...March 1928, a French company, Aeropostale, opened a route from France to Dakar by plane, across the Atlantic by boat to Brazil, by plane via Uruguay to Buenos Aires. One of the great ventures of a business age. the creation of Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont, Aéropostale could get an airmail letter from Paris to Argentina and a reply back in less time than U.S. business correspondence could make the one-way trip from New York...