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With brief text (59 pp.), 208 photographs (mostly of the square-rigger Parma, on which he sailed in 1933), he tells the soon-to-be-historic story of the dwindling fleet that still annually rounds the Horn on the long passage from Australia to England...
...Viareggio had no idea that their King and Queen were among them as the royal car slipped in with the blinds half drawn. Hucksters cursed the King's chauffeur when his tooting scared a donkey. Then serenely the big car shot between the gateposts of the historic Bourbon-Parma villa and Italian royalty alighted to make a match...
...ankle. On a subsequent trip the carriage tipped over, killed an onlooker. Goya sold the equipage, bought a pair of mules and a carriage with four wheels. In 1788 Charles IV came to the throne. Interested only in hunting he allowed his ugly, lecherous wife, Maria Luisa of Parma, and her lover, Manuel Godoy, to run the country. Goya became court painter and the lover of the Duchess of Alba whom he painted nude and copied clothed to fool her jealous husband (Maia Desnuda, Maia Vestida, now in the Prado at Madrid). One night when her carriage broke down...
...GIRL BEFORE THE MAST - Betty Jacobsen - Scribner ($2). A Brooklyn stenographer tells of her trip on the Parma, winner of last year's grain race from Australia to England. No Cradle of the Deep, no Falmouth for Orders, either...
...could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied to be a 'cellist at the Parma Conservatory. As a 'cellist he was playing in Rio de Janeiro when one night the regular conductor was unable to appear. In desperation the players remembered that Toscanini, then 19, seemed to know everything by heart. He had no dress coat. But the players hustled him into one, thrust a baton...