Word: signoralli
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Then spoke Signor Gatti. He drew up a new contract for Assistant General Manager Edward Ziegler, to run for as long a time as his own. He announced eleven new artists for next season?nine singers a conductor and a dancer...
First came the statement that established his own position?a letter from Otto H. Kahn, in behalf of the Metropolitan Board of Directors, extending his contract until May 31, 1931, in appreciation of "his brilliancy of artistic achievement and resourcefulness of management." So was Signor Gatti-Casazza honored at the close of his 18th season. Many knew that his old contract extended to 1929, saw that its extension was to insure his direction for at least three seasons in the new home, to squelch the rumor that a change of home means a change of organization...
...Deems Taylor, has written many a musical composition, among the more popular of which is a suite for orchestral rendition called "Through the Looking Glass." Onetime music critic of the New York World, he has attracted much attention to his commentaries because of his extremely readable but authentic criticisms. Signor Gatti-Casazza* is happy to announce that an opera collaborated upon by these two and named The King's Henchman will be produced next season...
...recent weeks, Signor Mussolini has appeared in TIME chiefly as an orator?in his own words...
...Signor Mussolini was presented with an Egyptian mummy in 1923. Late one night he chanced to read an article recounting "mysterious fatalities" said to have befallen those who have violated the tombs of the Pharaohs. An instant later, he was telephoning furiously. Before dawn the mummy had been removed from his residence to a remote museum...