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...great night. In the pit, Conductor Victor de Sabata had critics going back to Toscanini for comparisons. And on stage, 51-year-old Kirsten Flagstad, who had never before sung at the Milan opera house, thrilled the audience with the range, clarity and richness of her tones. Cried one critic: "This performance will go down in the annals as one of La Scala's greatest...
...sponsor such an advertisement [One Language Is Enough in North Carolina] as appeared on page 88 of TIME, June 14 (though I was heartily ashamed).... Please, leave such outbursts of "99% Americanism" to Social Justice and the Patterson-McCormick publications, and let TIME stick to the 100% Americanism of Sabata, Judd, et al. (p. 25, June 14 issue...
...Sabata, owner of a general store in Dwight, Neb. (pop. 294) thought the recipient of his letter might like to know the price of eggs and such things. Meticulously he set them down: "Coffee, 29? a Ib.; sugar, 8? a Ib.; beans, 9? a Ib.; eggs, 32? a dozen; corn meal, 5 Ib. for 17?; overalls, $1.75 a pr." Added Storekeeper Sabata: "My family consists of four girls, ages 21, 19, 16 and one year. I wouldn't do my government much good for soldiers, having all girls, but I did my part in 1918. I was in France...
...withdrew from the Venice International Film Festival (TIME, July 3). Last week the musical world showed signs of a similar division. The Rome-Berlin Axis was much in evidence at Bayreuth, Wagnerian shrine, where the stodgy, Nazi-favored conductors of recent years were joined by an Italian, Victor de Sabata. In Salzburg, which Anschluss knocked off the list of international smart-spots, four of seven scheduled operas were to be given in Italian, two of them with Italian casts, under Tullio Serafin, onetime conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. In contrast with Salzburg's old days, there was only...
Characteristically elaborate were Reinhardt's addenda to the play: incidental music written by Victor de Sabata; Moorish dancers to accompany the Prince of Morocco and appear in a ballet between the acts; a crowd of townsfolk to demonstrate against Shylock...