Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more impressive than the number of patients who daily crowd Achille d'Angelo's waiting room in Rome are the names of some of the privileged ones who come by special appointment. For a bad left knee, Arturo Toscanini took ten treatments last summer from D'Angelo, self-styled Mago di Napoli (Wizard of Naples), and pronounced the man formidabile. Tenor Beniamino Gigli went in to be lifted from his nervous depression. Italy's Queen Maria José once sought D'Angelo's aid for her "weakened optic nerves...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini directs an all-Debussy program...
Guido Cantelli is a young man in no hurry, but he is going places fast. Ever since, at 28, he first led the NBC Symphony as a hand-picked substitute for Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). Milan's Cantelli has been persuading audience after audience that his may be the richest new conducting talent in a decade or more...
...always travels with him. They have an apartment in Milan and, when possible, go to the mountains in summer. But he does not expect to have a vacation until 1954. He will take the Boston Symphony into Manhattan's Carnegie Hall this week. Then comes a stint with Toscanini's NBC Symphony, followed by four weeks with Dimitri Mitropoulos' New York Philharmonic-Symphony. On his spring & summer conducting schedule: London and Salzburg...
Stumpy and stubborn, with a pompadour of snowy hair and the operatic manner of a political Toscanini, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy (1917-19), stamped out of the Versailles Conference because the "other three" would not give him the port of Fiume. Clemenceau dubbed him "The Weeper," and Orlando himself recalled proudly: "When ... I knew they would not give us what we were entitled to ... I writhed on the floor. I knocked my head against the wall. I cried. I wanted...