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...intends to ask the U.S. Government for an act of clemency" in behalf of the pixilated U.S. poet, Ezra (Pisan Cantos) Pound, 68. After more than 30 years as an expatriate. Pound began spouting the Fascist line for Mussolini in World War II broadcasts from Rome and Milan. But it was hard to define just what might constitute "clemency" for Pound. In 1945 he escaped trial for treason because he was adjudged insane, and has since whiled away his declining years translating Confucius in a Washington, D.C. mental hospital...
...owned facilities or face eviction proceedings. The Communists, for example, print their official newspaper, L'Unità, in a government-controlled printing plant. Pietro Nenni's Red-affiliated Socialists were the first to get specific eviction notes. They were told they had three months to vacate their Milan headquarters, a building where Mussolini founded his Fascist fighting squads...
Only a day and a half after leaving Milan and her last La Scala performance in The Devil's Daughter (TIME, April 5), Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens made a pretty transatlantic commuter's picture as she landed at New York's International Airport, that same afternoon was on stage at the Metropolitan Opera to sing the title role of Carmen...
Around the Corner. The Genoa showing added new fuel to the revival of interest in Caravaggio, which has been growing steadily ever since Milan staged a Caravaggio retrospective three years ago. In recent months Critic Bernard Berenson has published an appraisal of Caravaggio's work, and British Critic Roger Hinks has added a critical biography of one of the world's most spectacular artistic adventurers...
...opera stars get invited to sing at Milan's La Scala, but last week Risë Stevens became the first ever to create a new role in the proud old house...