Word: volpi
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...opera in the U. S. and when European Opera is passing through its slack season, El Colon can? engage many of the most notable singers from either continent. This is attended to by Administrator Pablo F. Barbat; for the coming season he has secured the services of Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Didur, Pinza, and Mme. Serafin-Rakowska of the Metropolitan; and of Maria Olczewska, Benvenuto Franci, Otto Wolf from various European companies. He plans to present Ildebrando Pizetti's new opera Fra Gherardo...
Last week when the season opened, Lauri-Volpi sang Rhadames in Aida. The smart citizens of Buenos Aires cheered the performance; one fat dealer in sheep's wool as he got into his Hispano-Suiza was heard to gurgle his approval in unquotable terms...
...Rome last week at the Hotel Excelsior. One morning there called for him a twinkling limousine in which sat a scrubby bearded Roman of alert, engaging mien. Soon Agent Gilbert stepped into the limousine and sped away for a day of motoring and converse with Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi, famed co-negotiator with Secretary Mellon of the Italo-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
...financing a whole series of companies in Northern, Central and Southern Italy. Most notable, of course, is their issue for the Hydro-Electric Company of Piedmont, the S. I. P. (Societa Idroelettrica Peidmonte), famed because it is controlled by Il Duce's Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi...
...vast wealth and prestige of Finance Minister Count Volpi enable him to retain a very limited private initiative; and the potent connections of Minister of Colonies Dr. Luigi Federzoni with the Vatican give him likewise a modicum of independence...