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...Today Venetian-born Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (Jewels of the Madonna, Secret of Susanne, etc.) rates as one of the most successful of Italian opera composers. Unlike most of his lugubrious colleagues, Composer Wolf-Ferrari has devoted most of his time to operas with comic texts. Because Italians had greeted his first opera (Cenerentola) with catcalls and cabbages, Composer Wolf-Ferrari got most of his later works firsted outside Italy. But last week Milanese operagoers had a chance to chortle over a Wolf-Ferrari first. The new opera: La Nina Boba (The Stupid Girl), based on an old Spanish comedy...
...greater popular participation and solemn pomp than anywhere else in the world, were back to normal last week, with His Eminence Pedro Cardinal Segura officiating. Once again all Seville turned out, cigaret workers from the factory of Carmen in Bizet's famed opera shouldering their gorgeous, gold, bejeweled Madonna of Victory...
Penitents, marching barefoot over the cobbles, were more numerous than usual, many kept going until their feet were bruised and bleeding. On the eve of Good Friday the stately Madonna, Our Lady of Solitude, was carried into Seville Cathedral amid absolute, prayerful silence by the vast throng. Present on Palm Sunday as the Generalissimo's representative, was usually loud "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, silent for once. He had walked for five hours in one of the mystic Holy Week processions...
...they call him One-Eye Pete-and is he bad-Madonna!" ¶ "Here's how your stomach feels when you ride in one of them [rollercoaster] cars...
James Keen, 26-year-old photographer for the Associated Press, has a reputation for always striving for the unusual. Assigned to cover the Ohio-Mississippi flood last January, he spied a refugee Arkansas mother suckling her baby in a relief station, took a human interest picture called "Lowland Madonna" which won him wide praise and Editor & Publisher honors. Three weeks ago Photographer Keen was rushed to Warren County, Ga., whose farmers complained that Glascock County cotton growers were wooing away their Negro cotton pickers with higher wages and whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P. Hogan had acknowledged that some Warren...