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Home with 28?. Broadwayites found themselves asking: Where has Marie Powers been all our lives? The answer is that she has been out of the country most of the years since she left home in Mt. Carmel, Pa. at 17, to study singing in Italy. In Milan she sneaked into a friend's audition by Toscanini, got a job in La Scala for herself. She sang all over Europe, capably but not gloriously, and married an Italian nobleman. Her husband died just before the war, and she returned to the U.S. with 28? in her purse. She was singing...
Paris was happy to be invaded. The arrival of Milan's famed La Scala opera company set critics to reminiscing fondly of the days when Arturo Toscanini was in the pit, and Caruso, Scotti and Sembrich were on the stage. Nothing about Paris' own two forlorn companies, at the Opera and the Opéra-Comique, was of the sort to bring up such memories...
...twelve minutes. An unsuspected possessor of absolute pitch, he could name any note he heard struck on the piano. In one morning, Pierino learned the first movement of Beethoven's First Symphony and shortly after conducted the entire symphony at the Rome Opera. After that came concerts in Milan, Zurich, Basel...
...Battle of the Towers. Italy has countless church towers. Today it also has 8,635 carefully counted Communist Party sections, which break down into 34,540 cells that probe into every corner of the land (see box). The methods are simple. Said a Communist organizer in a village near Milan last week: "Communists freed this village. It wasn't the Socialists or the priests. I am a Communist." They rely on Good Works: last fortnight, a jammed train carried 200 children from starving Naples north to Emilia; there, on Communist farms, under special care of Rita Togliatti...
...their victories in municipal elections. Such cities as Sofia and Bucharest and Belgrade have always seemed to be on the other side of the moon. But the Red Flag flies also over cities that hold the West's most poignant memories: Virgil's Mantua, Ambrose's Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo's capitalist Venice. The Communists hold Leghorn, where Shelley spent some of his waning days, and Galileo's Pisa, and Parma, famous for violets...