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...Arturo Toscanini came to town via Nurnberg yesterday at half-past eight. He was greeted by Frau Winifred Wagner and at once installed in the Haus Wahnfried, where the distinguished conductor had been invited to live by Frau Wagner...
...Maestro still suffering from shock at being manhandled by Fascists in Bologna (TIME, June 22)? It seemed not. Reported the Leipzig Neueste Nachrichten: "A gray mist surrounds the 'beloved hill in Bayreuth' as the orchestral instrumentalists make their pilgrimage to this season's rehearsals . . . [Toscanini's] green auto is already standing there, and Emilio, his huge chauffeur, is playing with the diminutive fox terrier. . . . The Maestro raises his stick . . . sings with the music . . . 'Molto, molto, piu molto sforzato.' He wishes a strong, dramatic accent . . . a little cantilena [singing]. . . . Then, a small error...
Married. Grace Moore, 28, Metropolitan Opera soprano, cinemactress (New Moon); and Valentine Parara, 32, Spanish cinemactor; at Cannes, France. Some of the spectators: Arturo Toscanini, Lady Milford Haven, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Arlen, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Maurice Dekobra...
...feels the "terrible oppression" they suffered), Rachel in Halévy's La Juive ("It is of my own land . . . my race, which in Poland suffered inconceivable persecutions") and Maliella in The Jewels of the Madonna ("a vamp type . . . brilliant temperament of a feminine mind"). In 1924 Arturo Toscanini, then director of La Scala in Milan, offered her the leading soprano role in the world premiere of Arrigo Boito's posthumous Nerone. Regretfully she declined: she would not break her U. S. contracts (later she became a U. S. citizen). Maestro Toscanini postponed the premiere so that...
From a world quick to conclude that Art had been insulted, came expressions of indignation. Students at the Bologna Conservatory of Music shouted Evviva Toscanini! and were at once clapped into jail. In Berlin, Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra cried: "The Fascists will kill that man yet. He is so sensitive that he will never be able to stand the shock!" Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony cancelled a contract to conduct a June festival at La Scala in Milan, called the incident ''an insult not only to him but to artists generally!" Hastening from Zurich...