Word: sorrento
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...Sorrento, Italy...
...Sorrento, Italy, Maxim Gorky, "The Bitter One," famed Russian novelist, became morbid, cabled Dr. Alexander Kaun of the University of California to commission him to write The Life and Times of Maxim Gorky. Dr. Kaun left immediately for the author's bedside...
...Manhattan Opera House, wherein Bernardo de Muro, famed Italian tenor, sang last week in Trovatorc. Next day, Manhattanites of other nationalities read with astonishment of the singing of this De Muro-how his allegro was as clear as the bells of- Capri, his pianissimo tender as the mandolins of Sorrento and how the 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...
...Story. Mrs. Aldwinkle was proud of Italy. The fauna, the climate, (was it not the best in the world?), the music, the mandolins of Sorrento, the bells of Capri?even the stars that tremoloed with tender, operatic passion in the black night-sky ?all belonged to her. She had bought them, it seemed, when she bought the palace of the Cybo Malaspina which perched-a splendid example of baroque architecture?on a hill above the little town of Vezza. Ah, Italy! The boot fitted...
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT. Program: Beethoven, Symphony, "Eroica," (in memoriam Alexander Agassiz); St. Saens, Violin Concerto No. 3; Strauss, "On the Shore of Sorrento"; Berloiz, "Romain Carnival...