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...lustre pervaded the gilded interior of the Scala Theatre, in Milan, last week, reminiscent. It was the occasion of the premiere of Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, presented as he left it 17 months ago, unfinished. Critics, managers, connoisseurs the world over took the pilgrimage to Milan, hopefully, fearfully. Would Turandot be of the stuff of which La Boheme was made, La Tosca, Madame Butterfly?melodious, lovely, appealing, human above all operatic ingredients, or would it savor more of The Girl of the Golden West, of the later tryptich,* pappy, dull...
...dreamy look clouded the eyes of the old woman. "In Milan, Italy," she said, "the gypsy women are as slender as boys; their bracelets jingle as they lean over the wells at twilight...
...Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, finished by his friend Franco Alfano, to have its world premiere this week at La Scala, Milan...
...Secretary General of the Fascist party (TIME, April 12) exclaimed with fervor: "Once again God has saved Italy!" Meanwhile the Premier's old friends recalled other instances tending to show that "his temperament is by nature fearless." It was told again how, when he was an editor in Milan, he used to keep several bombs and hand grenades upon his desk, in case his political enemies should attack him. Once, while writing an editorial, he set fire to the fuse of one of these bombs by accidentally resting his cigaret upon it. An assistant noticed the smouldering fuse, screamed. Looking...
...Villa Rocabella near Locarno, Switzerland, was recently leased by a mysterious tenant, a lean, fox-faced German. Last week he motor-boated from Swiss Locarno across Lake Maggiore to Italian Stresa and there took the train for Milan. The next night he returned past Lake Maggiore, hurried on to Lucerne, where he doffed his incognito and admitted that he was the former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany...