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Notices had gone out that stocky, greying Monsignor Miguel de Andrea, Argentina's popular Bishop of Temnos, would open the meeting of the National Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics in Buenos Aires' plush Teatro Colon. Then everyone remembered that Monsignor Andrea was a liberal; in his youth he had even led a fisherman's strike. Like a pampas fire, word spread that the Bishop would discourse on liberty and the people's right to elect their own authorities...
...Teatro Colon's ticket office was swamped. Rumor galloped across the capital, cantered into the chambers of President Pedro Ramirez's reactionary nationalist Cabinet. Promptly the Government canceled the Academy's meeting. People on the street nodded knowingly, as if to say, "They feared to let him speak." Suddenly on the newsstands appeared red-&-black booklets containing the Bishop's unspoken address. Crowds snapped them...
Intimate Hour. He got four pesos a day in a café, where he married the cashier. His playing attracted a well-known singer named Maruca Perez, and Lara moved on to the famous El Retiro restaurant near the bull ring. He began writing music for revues at the Teatro Lirico, in 1932 was signed by Mexico's leading radio station for a program well named the Hora Intima, This has become Mexico's most popular radio feature...
...over, Pinza spent a brief spell as brakeman on a railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...
...Janeiro's Teatro Municipal, an audience of 3,000 saw the first U.S. ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...