Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franca Somigli was Marian Bruce Clarke of Manhattan, whose Park Avenue aunt staked her to study in Italy. As Franca Somigli she sang three years at the Scala in Milan. In Chicago she had big dramatic roles in Andrea Chenier and Il Trovatore, both ill-suited to her delicate lyric voice. After the Trovatore criticisms, she was so cross that friends had to stop her from packing her bags and leaving Chicago...
...autograph which looked like Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's, Walter Toscanini, long-nosed son of Conductor Arturo Toscanini, once paid 2,700 lire ($229.50). Shortly Son Walter, a rare-book dealer, learned that the signature was forged, gave Milan police a tip as to who the forger was. They found the rogue, one Tobia Nicotra, in his workshop, busy making autographs of Christopher Columbus, Lorenzo de' Medici, Warren Gamaliel Harding, many another...
Married. Count Franco Ratti, nephew of Pope Pius XI, engineer, director of the Vatican City Technical Services; and Angela Maria Crespi, daughter of Tycoon-Senator Silvio Crespi of Milan; by the Pope, who had not performed a marriage ceremony for eight years; in the great Consistorial Hall of Vatican City...
Born. To Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz; a daughter, Sonya, Toscanini's third grandchild; in Milan, Italy...
...Author. Born in a comfortable middle-class family at Ulm, on the Danube, in 1879, Albert Einstein spent his youth in Munich, where his father was part-owner of an electrotechnical plant. When Albert was 15, family reverses took the Einsteins to Milan. There he left school to study art, then to Zurich to learn how to become a breadwinning engineer. In 1902 he got a job in the Bern Patent Office as engineer and technical adviser. Three years later, when he was 26, he published his cosmos-shaking Special Theory of Relativity in the Annals of Physics. His General...