Word: scala
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scala, in Milan, Arturo Toscanini conducted a new opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti. Its story, taken from a mediaeval monk's chronicle, was that of "a young Parman of low birth, layman, idiot, and fool," one Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...
...Italy he is conductor of the Scala Opera in Milan-but he likes a concert orchestra better. He is interested in politics, ran once for the Italian Parliament on a Fascist ticket. His hobbies are painting and riding in a fast automobile; his life spent simply with Signora Toscanini, his two daughters-Wanda and Wally (the w's pronounced as v), his son Walter, a book collector in Milan...
Arrived in Manhattan four representatives of the Vatican Library to study U. S. library systems. They are Mgr. Giorgio Benedetti. Father Carlo Scala. bound for the Boston Public Library; Professors Giordanoi Ignio and Gerordo Bruni, headed for the University of Michigan...
Said Father Scala: "We receive books from all over the world and file them irrespective of their nature, letting time itself decide their value to the world...
Married. Senator Guglielmo Marconi, 53, famed wireless inventor; to Countess Maria Christina Bezzi-Scala, in Rome. Senator Marconi's marriage to Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, daughter of late Baron Inchiquin, was annulled this year by the Rota Tribunal...