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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to the article under Music in TIME, Oct. 7, we, as the leading artists of the San Carlo Opera take exception to the published statement: "He pays his routine singers $85 per week, thus can afford to keep his seat prices low. Even at such wages the singers sing often...
...principal artists never have, do not now and never will sing for a price as low as $85 a week, nor do we sing more often than three times a week unless paid pro rata extra. This is a normal number of performances in any opera company regardless of seat price. Regarding the statement "The singing was sure but rarely exciting," we submit for your consideration our past records as shown by audience and press enthusiasm of such large cities as Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, etc. You always seem desirous of correcting erroneous statements, therefore will you kindly...
...triple alliance" and sponsored by William Green and most of the executive council, went to a figurehead from the carpenters' union, James William Williams. Last week Plasterer McDonough brought the old fight to a crisis when he appeared at the Atlantic City convention, demanded a seat in the name of his rumpsters. Mr. Green confidently put the question to a viva voce vote, announced that Mr. McDonough had been counted out. "NO!" the convention roared back at startled Mr. Green. The roll-call vote on a proposal to withhold action on Mr. McDonough's ouster until a compromise...
...morning light, were already lined up; their engines idling. Il Duce's two sons, Bruno and Vittorio, now lieutenants in the air force, saluted, and took their places. Overalled mechanics crouched under each plane, screwing fuses in gleaming rows of high explosive bombs. In his pilot's seat Count Ciano opened the throttle, then waved his hand as a signal. The seven great planes wheeled and took off together due south for Ethiopia and the mountains of Tigr...
...pocketed pride to strive for the betterment and consolidation of Central China, not immediately menaced by Japan. Some 300 miles south of Nanking at Nanchang in the fastness of Kiangsi Province he also established one of the greatest fighting air bases in the Far East. Last week this seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic bases beyond the Ural Mountains...