Word: signor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Excellency Signor Giacomo de Martino, newly appointed Italian Ambassador to the U. S., left Rome, went to Naples, embarked on the Conte Verde bound for Manhattan, where the Ambassador will entrain for Washington...
Coming from so long a line of diplomats, small is the wonder that Signor de Martino is able. He was born just over 56 years ago, was sent to school in England as a small boy, learned the English language perfectly and still speaks it without a trace of foreign accent. At the age of 23, he joined the Diplomatic Corps. Fifteen years later, he was First Secretary of Legation at Cairo and, in 1910, was promoted Italy's Minister Plenipotentiary and Diplomatic Agent at the same place. It was in this latter capacity that he became a warm...
...after Italy had successfully upheld against the Turk the annexation oi its North African Province of Tripoli, Signor de Martino was transferred to the Sublime Porte (Constantinople), where he remained until Italy joined the War, in 1915, on the side of the Entente Powers...
...presentation of the works of American composers in English, next season . . . The first opera will be the new American opera Alglagla . . . by composer Frank de Leone [Akron, Ohio]. . . . The company will comprise not less than 50 persons. . . . No money will be spared." To the East, to the West, said Signor Gallo, his opera company would go, tour 100 cities (not yet booked) east of the Rockies, perhaps go farther west. The project is being backed by the National Federation of Music Clubs...
Italo Montemezzi, the author of "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" and three other operas which have been received favorably both in Europe and in this country, will attend the performance as the guest of the opera company for the evening. Signor Montemezzi is the most famous of living Italian composers, while "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" is generally considered his greatest work. Its Boston-premiere took place in 1914, only one year after its original production in Milan. The story was written by Sem Benelli, one of Italy's foremost living laywrights, and the author of many other works...