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Seats at Milan's La Scala sold for as high as $38 apiece one night last week. Black-shirted Fascists peppered the brimming opera audience. When a thick-set old man showed himself in the orchestra pit the whole house broke into a bedlam of cheers. "Evviva, evviva Mascagni...
...power in his voice, the authority of his acting. Giovanni Martinelli sang the "Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last B flat until the gallery was almost beside itself. To crown the performance Gatti had a new conductor, Ettore Panizza, onetime conductor of the Scala in Milan. Conductor Panizza is a lean, sparse-haired man who wears pincenez and a measly mustache. But he quickly proved himself a sure-fire opera leader, made the tunes so fetching that even the boxholders were hard put to it not to whistle...
Franca Somigli was Marian Bruce Clarke of Manhattan, whose Park Avenue aunt staked her to study in Italy. As Franca Somigli she sang three years at the Scala in Milan. In Chicago she had big dramatic roles in Andrea Chenier and Il Trovatore, both ill-suited to her delicate lyric voice. After the Trovatore criticisms, she was so cross that friends had to stop her from packing her bags and leaving Chicago...
...became known that if King George wants to be the only man in the world to own a "British Guiana, 1856, 1¢ magenta," it will cost him no less than $50,000. That is the price now set on the stamp by Philatelist Hind's widow, Mrs. Pascal Costa Scala, who last spring married a monument salesman who called to sell a tombstone for her husband's grave. Mrs. Scala announced last week that she would shortly take her valuable sliver of red paper to London's Royal Philatelic Society where prospective purchasers will have a chance to examine...
...time, took the name Horton from the Nova Scotian who owned him. Asadata Dafora started studying tribal music and dancing in his 'teens, traveled all over Africa, learned 14 dialects which he supplemented later with English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. He drifted to Europe, sang at the Scala in Milan until the War, during which he fought for the British in the West African Fron- tier Force. When he settled in Harlem in 1929 he was distressed to find that to the U. S. African music meant only Negro jazz. So he set to work on Kykunkor, singing...