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...never higher than during the last decade, the little 67-year-old Italian is responsible. New Yorkers knew him before as an opera conductor but in 1915 he tiffed with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, raged out of the Metropolitan and returned to Milan to give all his time to the Scala. No one thought he would accept when Clarence Mackay asked him to conduct the Philharmonic in 1926. And when he cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even...
...open letter Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch recalled the attack made on Toscanini two years ago in Italy when he refused to conduct the Fascist anthem, how other musicians stood by him then. Sergei Koussevitzky going so far as to cancel concerts he had intended to give at the Scala, thus jeopardizing his chance of ever being invited to conduct in Italy again...
...since 1870. In June there will be six or seven canonization and beatification ceremonies. On the Feast of Corpus Christi in June, the Pope may visit Rome for the first time in his eleven-year pontificate. Or he may go to Rome later, climb on his knees the famed Scala Santa (Holy Stairs) which are said to be the very ones Christ ascended in Pontius Pilate's palace. That Pius XI plans to leave Vatican City has been denied, but he keeps his own counsel, is fond of springing surprises...
Passing through the Metropolitan's narrow stage door Scotti managed a smile for photographers who waylaid him. He shook hands gravely with hulking Giulio Gatti-Casazza who had made his debut as manager of the Scala in Milan the night Scotti first sang there 34 years ago. Then he went upsteps to a dingy dressing-room, locked the door, took pictures of his long-dead father and mother from the little black bag and sat them down before a mirror. Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that...
...vaudeville" but she and her husband, Baritone Giacomo Rimini, who were once worth nearly $1,000,000 on paper, have been living at their villa near Verona, Italy, grateful for the farm products which grow on their acres, for an offer just made to them to sing at the Scala in Milan. The News neglected to report that Baritone Vanni-Marcoux came off handsomely by selling Insull stocks when they were still high, that careful old Basso Feodor Chaliapin ignored Insull's advice to invest $100,000 in Chicago utilities, bought Government bonds instead...