Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian composer, was about 37, a critic told him that he was past his prime. In his mind, at these unkind words, he heard the dwindling strophe of the heart's small drum, tapping into silence up an empty street. He sat down to write his tone-poem, Francesco da Rimini. Down in Hell's gilded street, the phantoms jostle; winds squeal like demented fiddles; ghosts squeak like dismal flutes; and lonely in the company of lovers who have sinned for love and have been damned for their sin to remember forever the joy of love...
Married. Miss Eleanor Sears, daughter of the late Commodore James H. Sears, U. S. N., to Baron Francesco Barracco; in Rome. She is not to be confused with Miss Eleanora Sears, famed Boston sportswoman, national women's doubles tennis champion in 1915-16-17, national mixed doubles champion...
...social history of every important country is summarized by competent authorities. To mention a few: Prof. John H. Latane of Johns Hopkins on the U. S.; Rt. Hon Sir H. C. Plunkett on Ireland; Brand Whitlock on Belgium ; ex-Premier Francesco Nitti on Italy; ex-Ambassador Hanihara on Japan...
Pietro will be accompanied by Giuseppe Radaelli, Agostino Capuzzo, Rino Dldrati, Irma Vigano, Maria Lecer-Casale, Adriana Boccanera, Enrico Nani, Francesco Novelli and Luciana Donaggio, singers. Signers Alfredo Salmaggi and Antonio Ferrara have already arrived as couriers and business managers...
...Francesco Seri, basso...