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Extremely sage bets: Inventor Marconi; Soldier-patriot-poet-playwright d'Annunzio; Composer Toscanini (director of La, Scala, Milan, "The Foremost Opera House of Europe"); Conductor Mascagni (composer of the score for Cavalleria Rusticana); Philosopher-satirist-playwright Pirandello (author of Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play hailed with acclaim on Broadway); Statesman Mussolini and as many Fascist statesmen as are able to get in under the limit of 60 Immortales...
Wildly enthusiastic, his hearers were with difficulty persuaded to clear the dictator's path to the great Scala Opera House nearby, where he was scheduled to deliver a formal address. Gaining the platform at last, he cried...
...Johnstown since the Flood, nor, until last week, had he sung in San Francisco since the Fire. His great voice boomed there last week; other famed singers tuned their notes-Tita Schipa, tenor from the Chicago Civic Opera; Marguerite d'Alvarez, Spanish contralto; Rosina Torri, from La Scala; Fernand Ansseau, Belgian. Fans, neckcloths, puffed and powdered melodies furbished once more the elegant infidelities of Manon Lescaitt; pompous swaddlings adorned the familiar French-Hebrew heroics of Samson et Dalila. The San Francisco Opera Company had begun its season...
...great assembly of his countrymen in the galleries, pit and loges of the old opera house rose shouting, with cries of "Ancora," "Bravo" and "Yeah." De Muro, they read, is known as the greatest tenor in Italy. He lives in Milan, where he sings at La Scala, owns a fine house, runs a cork factory-the biggest cork factory in Italy, for De Muro does not compromise. He was born in Sardinia, where his success with serenades was so embarrassing that his parents, people of quality, decided that it would perhaps be more becoming if he turned professional...
...moon, that the dawn has taken; under a black balcony rises, from unseen lips, a whisper Juliet heard, and Heloise-which tired, tired ladies in upholstered boxes hear again, not daring to open their eyes. Gigli is a friend of Toscanini, who boosted his talents at La Scala, Milan. He has had successes in Spain, Berlin, was once the chief drawing card of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. This winter, he, in excess of drama, accidentally hurled athletic Soprano Maria Jeritza into the footlights (TIME, Feb. 9)-an unfortunate accident which did not help his popularity. He makes his chief...