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Arturo Toscanini took back his vow never to return to Italy so long as The Little King and his family had any power. Reason for changing his mind: he now believes that Italy will soon become a republic. The 78-year-old conductor agreed to conduct the opening at Milan's famed La Scala next season, telephoned Rome to start rounding up singers...
Uprising in the North? Meanwhile, in Milan, the ganglion of Italy's leftist political life, there were rumors of a Communist uprising after A.M.G. pulls out of Italy next month. One Allied officer reported that the Allied intelligence services had learned the date set by the Communists...
Partisans had done an impressive job in preparing for the German collapse and organizing North Italy afterwards. But they had also carried on an unflagging terror campaign. In the streets of Milan, alleged Fascists or sympathizers were rubbed out at the rate of 30 or 40 a night. When Allied authorities ordered arms surrendered, thousands of pro-Communist Partisans left Milan and took to the countryside, where they still continue their unlawful activities...
Tribute & Applause. The Fascists did their best to make a great musician of Pietro Mascagni, and he cooperated. In 1926, he was appointed Arturo Toscanini's successor as director of Milan's La Scala. He obliged by composing a Hymn of Labor. The obedient Fascist press hailed his 1935 opera Nero, a musical tribute to Mussolini's Italy, but it flopped anyway...
Benito Mussolini was named as father of an illegitimate girl by a woman who complained to Milan newspapers. Next day a 30-year-old turned up who claimed the name, Benito Mussolini Jr., as his illegitimate right...