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...Milan's La Scala heard Alban Berg's atonal opera Wozzeck for the first time last week and, somewhat to its own surprise, was impressed...
...Cervises hid the whole bundle, but later they forgot their trust long enough to hand over the toilet-paper diary to a Milan newspaperman. Its publication in 1946 put the police, the press and Clara's relatives (selfexiled in Spain to avoid embarrassing investigations at home) in hot pursuit of the rest of her possessions and revelations...
...four years the hunt turned up nothing. Then an anonymous letter to a Milan newspaper offered a tip. The police responded, and in Clara's old garden they dug up a trunk, four suitcases and three wooden boxes, all crammed with Petacci mementos...
...Painted on the refectory wall at Milan's Santa Maria della Grazie, Leonardo's masterpiece started going to pot even before his death, has faded and flaked so badly that only the barest details remain...
Another case involving a late great Italian entertainer turned up in court this week. In Milan, Alberto Valentino and Mrs. Maria Strada, brother & sister of Cinemactor Rudolf Valentino, sued Columbia Pictures and Edward Small Productions for $700,000 damages. The picture Valentino (TIME, May 7), according to Alberto and Maria, is a clear case of "defamation of character and the unauthorized use of the name and likeness of the famous star." As a result, brother & sister claim they have suffered "shame, annoyance, ridicule, humiliation and mortification...