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This was vexing to President Benes' far from cordial host, Premier Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Obviously 13-year-old King Peter does not yet count...
Gian-Carlo Menotti was born near Milan. His father was a wealthy importer who did business with Colombia. His mother taught Gregorian chant in a local church. Save for her, young Gian-Carlo had little music instruction until he was 18. In that year Father Menotti died, and Gian-Carlo went to South America to set tle his accounts. Later, in New York, he met Rosario Scalero of Curtis Institute who got him a scholarship there...
...made in 19 days. But United's round-the-world-trip allows 28, with sight-seeing along the way. Passengers will fly from Newark to San Francisco by United, to Hong Kong by Pan American, to Athens by Britain's Imperial Airways, to Milan by Italy's Ala Littoria and Avio Linee Italiane, to Frankfurt by Royal Dutch Air Lines (K.L.M.), to Lakehurst, N. J. on the Hindenburg, back to Newark by American Airlines...
...Milan last week a premiere for which Italy had waited almost a year came to pass. Nobles, diplomats, artists and high society packed into La Scala to hear singers retell the story of Lucretia's rape, the people's revolt and the eventual founding of the Roman Republic. Composer Ottorino Respighi had made his new opera dovetail scrupulously with Livy's 2,000-year-old account. As usual in his later work he had been sparing with orchestral effects, taken pains that voices should nearly everywhere prevail. Many pronounced Lucrezia the best opera Respighi ever wrote...
...middle of this period saw him sent on a second diplomatic errand to Italy to treat with Bernabo, tyrant of Milan, that "God of delit, and scourge of Lumbardye." Despite his business he discovered for himself Dante, Boccaccio, and Petarch, and the powerful city states of Genoa, Milan, and Florence enriched his observations. But his own London furnished him with the intimate knowledge of the many actors in his human comedy, and there he underwent an unconscious training for his masterpiece...