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MILAN--It was reported late tonight that Arturo Toscanini, famous conductor whose passport was withdrawn by Milan police, already had left Milan "and should be in France by now." The information was said to have been given to friends by the former Signovina Fornaroli, the wife of Toscanini's son Walter, and came after Toscanini's had been represented to be determined to sail for the United States Wednesday "at any cost...
...Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 3:30 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake Lucerne, in Maria Luigi Cherubini's Anacreon Overture, Johannes Brahms's Third Symphony, Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger Prelude...
...Arturo Toscanini (Thurs. 12:05 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts a specially assembled Swiss orchestra at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake of Lucerne, in Richard Wagner's A Siegfried Idyll, (12:30 p.m., NBC-Red) in Beethoven's Second Symphony...
...enthusiastic Nazis, including hundreds of members of Propaganda Minister Goebbels' "Strength through Joy" movement who had been granted specially reduced rates. The elaborate permanent stages formerly used for the Reinhardt Faust and Jedermann productions had been torn down, and the street name plates marking "Reinhardt Platz" and "Toscanini Hof" had been removed...
...festival's general program had changed little, but the personnel had changed much. In the place of the absent Toscanini reigned Germany's No. 1 conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Notably absent from the roster were such famous operatic names as Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg, Rosa Pauly. In place of the grandiose stage productions of Faust and Jedermann, two new dramatic productions were scheduled: Goethe's Egmont and Amphitryon, a play by Germany's 19th-Century, romantic Playwright Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist...