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Other musical passengers were less reticent. Conductor Bernardino Molinari was on his way to San Francisco to play several new compositions. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was with Toscanini's pretty daughter Wanda whom he married a month ago in Milan (TIME, Jan. 1). Janet Olcott,17-year-old daughter of the late Chauncey Olcott, would make her piano début. Bubbling over with talk was mousey little Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi. Yehudi had practiced with Toscanini every day aboard ship and Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler...
Married. Wanda Toscanini, 25, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...
...Council rose amid cheers for II Duce's kind of Capitalism. Next day he appointed his 21-year-old nephew, Vito Mussolini, to be editor and general manager of the Mussolini family newspaper II Popolo d'Italia of Milan, founded by Uncle Benito and edited after he became Premier by his late brother Arnaldo, Vito's father. Last week the first striking editorial to appear under Editor Vito's regime was also all about Capitalism-about the recognition by what II Popolo called the "ultra-Capitalistic" Roosevelt Administration of the Soviet Union...
...Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called out militiamen to help patrol highways in the western part of his State. Veterans of last spring's milk war in Wisconsin outdid their lowan colleagues in violence. Ten thousand pounds of milk were dumped from the vats of a Milan cheese factory; more than 100 other cheese factories and creameries closed voluntarily throughout the state. Near Marshfield a farmer trying to sell a load of wood was brutally clubbed. A picketer near Madison was shot and killed by a truck driver running a blockade...
...France in 1926, Jarboro hired a tutor to teach her the language. When her funds ran low, she sold the house in New Jersey, went to Italy. Four years passed before she made her début, as Aïda in the Puccini theatre in Milan. Later she sang in L'Africaine, for three years thereafter appeared regularly in leading opera houses in France, Italy, Switzerland. Last month she returned to the U. S. after seven years, showed Manhattan operagoers an Aïda really Ethiopian...