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Carlo Confalonieri, 65, has given up his favorite sport of mountain climbing, which he practiced as a sergeant in World War I. Son of a cabinetmaker in the north Italian town of Seveso, he was aide and confidant of Achille Cardinal Ratti, both as Archbishop of Milan and as Pope Pius XI. Since 1950, he has served in Rome as secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities...
...Soprano Eugenia Ratti, 22, is the youngest of the current crop of Italian stars. The shapely daughter of a Genoa streetcar conductor, she joined La Scala three years ago, displayed a talent for the soubrette roles of Rossini and Donizetti and has moved some critics to predict that she will surpass Callas both as actress and singer. Her diction is flawless, her voice cool and clear as crystal. Her artistic ideal is Callas, but she has a reservation: "I still have a heart, Callas...
Meneghini CallasX The offering: Cima-rosa's charming // Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage), with such Scala names as Caro Badioli, Eugenia Ratti, Graziella Sciutti and Giulietta Simionato -all first-rate singers but not of world reputation. The opera has been performed scores of times at La Scala (last in 1948), but in the vast house it never came across with such gusto, immediacy or subtlety. The press was as happy as the audience, and only a few backstage complaints about the cramped space kept the accolade from being unanimous...
...chamber, in which the Pope could gaze upon a portrait of the longtime protectress of his health, St. Therese of Lisieux, gathered a hushed assemblage: lean, austere Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Camillo Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni, the Pope's protege and master of ceremonies, Count Franco Ratti, the Pope's nephew, Governor Camillo Serafini of Vatican City. The Pope's regular doctor, Dr. Aminta Milani, himself down with a high fever, left his sickbed to administer to the Pontiff a last, desperate injection of adrenalin...
Died. Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, 81, 261st Pope, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Pri mate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, absolute sovereign of Vatican City, spiritual sovereign of 331,500,000 Roman Catholics; of cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances; in Vatican City...