Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with a robustious performance of Rigoletto, the Rome Opera's 1949 summer season came to a close. Many of the 200,000 tourists who visited Caracalla found performances full of more swaggering and hair-on-the-chest acting than they were accustomed to; also, the vast distances sometimes provoked more screaming than singing by Caracalla's puffing stars. But most could agree that they had never seen such a striking setting or such magnificent staging...
...Rome's opera lovers, reviewing progress since the war, and eyeing their arch operatic enemies in Milan, were delighted. Said one: "We are at least improving artistically while La Scala is living largely on its reputation...
...this week, B.E.A.'s replies were rolling in, half of them in Latin. Said one, freely translated: "Most learned manager of sales: Nothing would be more welcome to me than to ... travel to Rome . . . But the LIII libras are lacking unto me. Farewell." Total response to date...
...drum up business for its London-Rome route, British European Airways sent a letter to 7,200 Roman. Catholic clergymen in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was no ordinary promotion letter; it was in Latin and it urged the priests to visit Rome during the Holy Year...
Said the letter: "The fact that the Venerable Bede was able to travel to Rome nine times during his life* demonstrates clearly the miserable condition of our time, in which one moves about Europe with the utmost difficulty . . . But . . . B.E.A. truthfully promises to deliver your person at Rome in a mere seven hours . . . and all for the price of LIII libras...