Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month there popped up at St. Etienne a dour, baldish, 31-year-old Italian sculptor named Francesco Cremonese, who swore that the Venus was his. He completed it, he said, in 1936, buried it because nobody paid attention to his work, hoping to make a name for himself when...
...Fastest man has ever traveled is 440 m.p.h., a speed attained in the air by Italian Francesco Agello in 1934. Speed record on water is 129 m.p.h., set last September by Britain's Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of the land speed record (301 m.p.h.) before Captain Eyston...
...Fascist State set about overcoming this shameful symphonic weakness. Officially smiled upon was a group of contemporary Italian orchestral composers, headed by the late Ottorino Respighi (Pini di Roma), lean-faced Ildebrando Pizzetti (Rondo Veneziano), gloomy, Venetian-born Gian Francesco Malipiero (Pause del Silenzio) and dapper, energetic Alfredo Casella (La Giara). Dominant influence on these composers was that of French Impressionists Debussy and Ravel, though Casella and Malipiero occasionally toddled in Stravinsky's footsteps...
Except for notoriously bad equipment, nothing had threatened the prospects of Covent Garden's Coronation operas (TIME, May 3). Director Sir Thomas Beecham had engaged such guest conductors as Wilhelm Furtwängler, John Barbirolli, Francesco Salfi, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner. Eugene Goossens of the Cincinnati Symphony had been hired to conduct the world premiere of Don Juan de Manara, a bloodthirsty opera differing widely from Mozart's Don Giovanni, which he had composed for the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera...
...good friend of the brothers was Francesco Nitti, nephew of Francesco Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy, 1919-20. Uncle Nitti, a full-blooded anti-Fascist was hounded out of Rome in 1925, later went to live in Paris. It was with Nephew Nitti that Carlo escaped from his island prison. To the Süreté last week Francesco Nitti declared: "The murder of the Roselli brothers could have been committed . . . only by experts in political crime...