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...Francisco opening a dapper Italian mounted the conductor's stand proud as Punch, not that he is a great conductor, or that anyone has ever called him one, but because he, Gaetano Merola, could rightfully claim credit for making San Francisco's opera thrive. For his first season (1923) there was not even an adequate stage. Quick to gamble, he spent $20,000 fixing up the old Auditorium, began importing high-priced singers. When that first season ended Impresario Merola went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But San Franciscans had liked his performances, wanted more, formed...
Seemingly unconcerned was Gaetano Merola, the dapper irrepressible Italian who against all odds founded the San Francisco company in 1922. Impresario Merola defined the deficit as an asset, symbol of the scenic equipment which he has been steadily acquiring. While San Franciscans worried over President Alexander's pronouncement, Merola was flitting about Manhattan last week, hearing new singers, considering new contracts...
...Angeles. He had passed a $20 bill recognized as part of $129,000 stolen from a U.S. mail truck in Fall River, Mass, last Jan. 23. Herbert Hornstein's talk set U.S. postal inspectors on the trail of Carl Rettich and his suave, handsome henchman, Andino Merola. One day last fortnight they followed the pair from Providence to Worcester, Mass., lost them there. That night Andino Merola's corpse was found filled with bullets beside a road near Wrentham, Mass. Next day postal inspectors and Providence police descended on Carl Rettich's big house on Warwick Neck...
Carl Rettich gave himself up early last week. With the arrest of the chief and 20-odd henchmen, authorities felt that the solution of the Fall River case was only a beginning. They planned to prosecute Rettich first under the "Lindbergh Law" for enticing Andino Merola across a State line to his death. But first they expected him to tell something about the disappearance in 1933 of his onetime 'legging partner. Danny Walsh, who, rumor said, had been stood in a tub of cement until it dried, then tossed into Narragansett Bay. Perhaps he could explain, too, what happened...
Alfred Hertz gave Impresario Gaetano Merola good cause last week to worry over his budget. For years the San Francisco Opera ran no deficit. Last season there was one of some $30,000. Merola often undertakes a performance with next to no rehearsals; Hertz demands many. But as the solid old German stood in the pit last week, sweat gleaming from his bald pate, his beard pointing eagerly toward the stage. San Franciscans forgot all about dollars and deficits in the fine sweep of his orchestral performance...