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Maddalena. Nothing could have been more commonplace to three men in a sea plane that started a routine flight from Milan to Rome last week. All of them had crossed the South Atlantic with General Italo Balbo's roaring Triads (TIME, Jan. 19). Col. Umberto Maddalena, at the controls, was Italy's most decorated airman, most famed next to Balbo. He it was who, scouring the Arctic wastes in 1928, first sighted General Umberto Nobile and his party from the wrecked dirigible Italia, stranded on the ice near Spitsbergen. Sitting behind Col. Madda lena in the seaplane last week...
Tosca by Italian artists, the chorus of La Scala and the Milan Symphony, under Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $21)-In-terruptions by an excited Italian claque are the only additions needed to make this Tosca sound completely realistic. All Conductor Molajoli's performances move at a swift, theatric pace...
Verdi's Requiem Mass by Soprano Maria Fanelli, Mezzo-Soprano Irene Minghini-Cattaneo, Tenor Franco Lo Giudice, Basso Ezio Pinza and the chorus and orchestra of La Scala, Milan, recorded there under Conductor Carlo Sabajno (Victor, $15)-Verdi's vibrant tribute to Novelist Alessandro Manzoni, of particular interest in Manhattan this year be- cause of a performance under Arturo Toscanini in which Mezzo-Soprano Margaret Matzenauer sang magnificently...
...Shanghai, China, big Sister Edda, Countess Ciano, is the wife of the Italian Consul General. In Milan, doughty Uncle Arnaldo Mussolini edits the family paper, Il Popolo d'ltalia. Also in Milan, little Sister Anna Maria teethes...
...Just ten years before we were both reporters on the same story. It was at Cannes during the famous Cannes Conference. He was covering the story for Popolo d'ltalia of Milan, of which he was then editor. I was manager of the Paris bureau and was covering it for the United Press. At that time Mussolini was practically unknown outside Italy. He scurried around with the rest of us with notebook and pencil, gathering items from Lloyd George, Briand and Lord Riddell. None of us paid him any attention. Certainly none could have foreseen that in a few years...