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This year it will open its continental concert series with a performance for the Holland Festival at the Hague, then will sing in Belgium and Paris. Concerts are also arranged for Tours and Orleans in France, Siena and Perugia in Italy, Freiburg and Munich in Germany, Cambridge and Buckingham in England...
...stay in Italy can cost as little as $50 per month. Italian schools and universities specialize in giving courses in history, music, literature, and fine arts. The University Summer Courses in Aquila, the University of Florence, the Italian University for Foreigners in Perugia, the University of Pisa, the Societa Dante Alighieri, and the University of Urbino give courses in late July about local art treasurers. Perugia and Pisa Universities offer special instruction on Etruscan antiquities...
...Perugia, Italy (Sept. 19-29): sacred music of all ages, climaxing in a mystery spectacle, Laudes Evangelii, with music by Valentino Bucchi and choreography by Leonide Massine...
...Mussolini, Kesselring writes: "It was only to be expected that as the war went on the Italians would try to make things easier for themselves by ratting to the other side." Italian "treachery" notwithstanding, he claims and probably deserves credit for sparing such culturally rich towns as Orvieto, Perugia, Urbino, Siena, Padua, Ravenna and Venice from military destruction. He admits "the destruction of the wonderful [Florentine] bridges across the Arno." As for the famed monastery of Monte Cassino, Kesselring stoutly denies that the German armies ever put it to military...
Headed in the opposite direction for her year of study is Elisabeth Hanna, who left her TIME desk with a Fulbright scholarship to work in Italy at the University of Perugia and the University of Florence. Scholar Hanna, a distant relative of President-Maker Mark Hanna of Ohio, is a young lady working her way up in the newsreporting business. She came to TIME a fluent linguist in German, French and Italian, with a scholastic background of study at Vassar, Barnard and the University of Berlin. This year she learned how TIME handles its network of foreign correspondents...