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After Allied bombers got through with Milan's famed La Scala in August 1943, all that was left was the stage and four walls. Last week La Scala had been put back together again (at a cost of $350,000 that a lot of Italians felt could have been better spent on bread and shelter). To its reconstructed podium stepped little, white-haired Arturo Toscanini, 79, who had scored some of his greatest triumphs there...
...sing a note. This week Menotti's seven-year-old opera bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti says, "is very musical...
Arturo Toscanini, about to rehearse Milan's La Scala orchestra for his concert this week, confessed he was "frightened," called it off till the next day. "I am not worried about the public, which leaves me quite indifferent," he explained. "It is the orchestra. . . . It is 16 years since I last saw them. . . ." Next day the maestro was back in shape, shouted, stamped, gave a workman holy Ned for whistling...
...unmarked pauper's grave in Milan's Maggiore Cemetery lay open. Benito Mussolini's body had been stolen. Beside the gutted trench was a letter. "The Duce is among us again," it read. "The time will come when the Duce in his coffin, kissed by our sun, will parade through the streets of Italy, and all the roses of the world and all the tears of our women will not be enough to give extreme greetings to this great...
...Gianninis, not related, helped bring the crisis to a head. In Milan, Editor Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (TIME, Nov. 26) insistently demanded a new government of nonpoliticians. In Rome, gruff U.S. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini of California's Bank of America answered a Parri Government request for credits with "Italy's present precarious situation does not permit the safe investment of capital. . . . Without a strong government you will be unable to prevent rioting...