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...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...
Died. Leopold Anton Johan Sigismund Josef Korsinus, Count von Berchtold, Baron von und zu Ungarschitz, Fratting und Pullitz, 79, one of the numerous men individually charged with starting World War I; in Sopron, Hungary. He was Austria-Hungary's Foreign Minister from 1912 to 1915, wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war-that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged...
...Meine Deutschen Volksgenossen und Genossinen...
...wholesale uproar among the civilian population of Rostock. German editorial writers recognized the damage that had been done, to morale and to production. Prize piece of pabulum for the gullets of the master people was the editorial in Dr. Alfred Rosenberg's Archiv für Rassen und Gesellschafts-biologie...
...last week, the only comprehensive book on the life work of the most famed living U.S. architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, has been a monumental, professorial volume written more than 30 years ago in German (Frank Lloyd Wright, ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, by Kuno Francke; Berlin; 1910). Last week the U.S. got its first thorough native survey of Architect Wright's restless, productive development...