Word: milan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...descended from his luxurious retreat at Gardone to Milan, there to witness the Italian premiere of his highly sacrilegious opera, The Martyrdom of San Sebastian. The opera was explicitly barred to Catholics by the authorities at Rome after its French premiere in 1911. What of that? D'Annunzio donned the uniform of a General of the Air Service, caused his valet to obscure his chest with medals, and strode to the performance. With complete assurance he had caused it to be presented at La Scala, the leading theatre in Italy, with a seating capacity of 3,600. Despite...
Servitors flitted excitedly about the Hotel de la Ville, Milan. While an adept facchino hastily pasted the establishment's labels on a small mountain of luggage, he grinned to observe a dictatorial Roumanian gentleman who fumed with the proprietor over the last items of a considerable bill. Suddenly a petite red-haired young woman emerged from the hotel lift with the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania. Before them scurried the Roumanian gentleman, dictatorial no longer, to usher Mme. Magda Lupescu and the former Crown Prince into an automobile which sped to the great Stazione Centrale...
Other motors followed them. They contained pressmen whose blase hearts were a-thumping. Was Carol, after dwelling sub rosa in Milan with Mme. Lupescu for nearly two months (TIME, Jan. 18 et seq.), about to return to Bucharest? Was he going to resume his abdicated rank? Would Mme. Lupescu attempt to go with him, or would she merely...
Said by the scurrilous pressmen to have been given her by the hotel servants at Milan, who often reward ladies of the half-world in this fashion, hoping for future patronage...
...arranged through Otto Kahn an audition with the Metropolitan Opera authorities in November, 1922. There followed months of study in Manhattan, then more concerts in Kansas City, Kan., in Lindsborg, Kan., in Emporia. The Talleys?mother, Florence and Marion?went to Italy, stayed nearly a year in Milan. Marion studied languages, interpretation, acquired a repertoire. There on July 4, 1925, she and Signer Gatti-Casazza met, drew up the contract whose fulfillment began last week...