Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philharmonic has given. For its artistic prestige, never higher than during the last decade, the little 67-year-old Italian is responsible. New Yorkers knew him before as an opera conductor but in 1915 he tiffed with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, raged out of the Metropolitan and returned to Milan to give all his time to the Scala. No one thought he would accept when Clarence Mackay asked him to conduct the Philharmonic in 1926. And when he cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot...
...fellow musicians who happened to be Jews (TIME. June 19). He took one of his stands last week when he refused to talk at his birthday party. Many a Sunday afternoon subscriber remembered that he had made a speech three years ago when Signora Carla was home in Milan with a broken leg. At great expense that day Columbia Broadcasting System had arranged a short wave connection lo Italy and at the end of the concert, to everyone's amazement, the Maestro rushed up to the microphone and in his croaking voice said: "I send you my best greetings...
...liberty exists in fascist Italy," continued Salvemini. "Toscanini is beaten in Milan for refusing to play the fascist anthem. Ferrero, the historian, lives in exile in Geneva. And Croce is grossly insulted for uttering sentiments displeasing to the fascists while lecturing at Oxford. Today he can not write on political topics...
Other musical passengers were less reticent. Conductor Bernardino Molinari was on his way to San Francisco to play several new compositions. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was with Toscanini's pretty daughter Wanda whom he married a month ago in Milan (TIME, Jan. 1). Janet Olcott,17-year-old daughter of the late Chauncey Olcott, would make her piano début. Bubbling over with talk was mousey little Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi. Yehudi had practiced with Toscanini every day aboard ship and Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler...
Married. Wanda Toscanini, 25, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...