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...unit was established on a permanent basis in 1922 by General Pershing, and during the war they were in the ETO attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters. In the course of their overseas tour, the men were in North Africa, Sicily, England, France, Belgium, and Germany. They returned from overseas on June 15, 1945, by plane in order to play for General Eisenhower's victorious reception in Washington and New York...
Three days earlier 57-year-old Tito Schipa (pronounced skeepa) made his first operatic appearance outside the Axis belt since he left the Metropolitan in 1941. He did Manon at the Opera-Comique. Next fall Schipa plans to make a U.S. concert tour. Schipa is defiant of reporters who want to make something of his wartime singing in Italy. Says he: "I am no Communist! I am no Fascist! I sing good and Mussolini give me a medal! So what...
Norman Corwin, jack-of-all-radio, paused to set a few minds at ease as he flew off on a four-month round-the-world tour patterned on Wendell Willkie's 1942 flight. "Storm" indications between the U.S., Britain, and Russia, he announced, were "nothing serious." Armed with a recording device and set for interviews high & low, the winner of the "OneWorld" award (TIME, March 4) proposed to turn his trip to account by capturing "the ordinary qualities" of practically all kinds of people all over the world...
...Judith Anderson and threadbare Impresario Michael Chekhov, torn between terror and balletomania, hover unhappily in the wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns his own (and mad Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky's) great role, Le Spectre de la Rose, into a dance of death...
This week Iturbi is auditioning musicians, 40 at a time, for his new 96-piece Iturbi Symphony Orchestra which he will take on tour this summer. He will conduct from the keyboard while playing Liszt and Beethoven concertos. The Iturbi orchestra will fill six Pullman cars, a baggage car and a private car. Said Iturbi: "Details are carried out by my managers. I'm just interested in the idea . . . I'm not interested in the difficulties...