Word: italian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than torn theatre posters have caused serious riots in Tangier. Diagonally across the strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
...little man quashed it with a quick bow, turned his back, tapped smartly for attention and began the business of the evening. The Overture to Byron's Manfred, the Don Quixote of Richard Strauss and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony-these comprised the Teutonic program which the Great Italian chose to deliver. And then, as if to justify his choice, he made of the flaccid Manfred a deeply despairing hero and touched the bemuddled Cervantes knight with the tenderness of a great comedian. Not until the Beethoven, though, did he have material mighty enough for his greatest virtuosity...
...Like the Italian Toscanini, the Russian Stokowski chose German music. Like Toscanini with his Beethoven, Stokowski has always had unseen powers over Brahms' First Symphony. Brahms then, followed by worthy excerpts from the Wagnerian Ring made of his first concert a surging translucent affair...
Prime Minister Mussolini of Italy last week chewed on a bitter-sweet contract and said a sour thanks. The contract bore the signatures of his Ambassador to the U. S. Giacomo De Martino, and Deputy Amedeo Perna, Italian dentist-politician, and the level script of George Eastman, Kodak & film tycoon. It sweetly gave $1,000,000 to the Italian Government to build and equip a dental clinic in Rome. At the same time it bitterly implied the rottenness and crookedness of Italian children's teeth. And it hobbled the champing Mussolini to certain stout stipulations...
...Eastman and Dr. Harvey Jacob Burkhart, director of the Rochester Dental Dispensary have the sole authority to select the architect, arrange the details of the interior and select the equipment for the clinic, all of which will be up to the best U. S. standards. For two years the Italian government must not interfere with the clinic without Mr. Eastman's or Dr. Burkhart's approval. That Government appoint an unselfish, intelligent director who for two months must study U. S. dental methods and clinics under Dr. Burkhart's direction. It must furnish funds to operate...