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...Lady Zorro. There was a puppet show, an acrobatic act, a North American dog act, and a show called Don't Stop, You're Killing Me, a revue thinly disguised as melodrama, which incorporated a squad of "police" who, more or less as if sent by Luigi Pirandello, entered the theater telling everyone in the audience to keep his seat until the heavy was apprehended. At the 3,000-seat Blackpool Opera House, the biggest English theater outside London, an expensive collection of British TV and variety stars was headed by Rock Cornish Singer Tommy Steele, earning...
Benches & Dreams. When three of the manifesto signers-Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo and Carlo Carra-held a "Futurist Evening" in Turin, they set off a riot. In Bologna, Carra was nearly killed when an exasperated antifuturist hurled a bench at him, and in Treviso the three painters had to be rescued by the police from a mob. But the searing colors and frenzied designs of the futurists had their purpose: to depict not the surface world but the latent powers asleep within...
Florence (May to-June 30). Celebrates the 200th anniversary of Florentine Composer Luigi Cherubini's birth with the first modern performance of his long-forgotten Elisa. The Maggio Musicale will also offer a handful of 20th century works, including Janacek's Jenufa, will feature concerts by Milan's Nuovo Quartette, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Warsaw, Violinist Isaac Stern...
...Bishop Luigi Traglia, 64, born in Albano, near Rome, has worked in the church's administrative headquarters, the Curia, for the past 30 years. As vice regent of the diocese of Rome, he was in charge of the recent synod of the Roman clergy (TIME, Feb. 8), has made an impressive record as a builder of churches and organizer of new parishes...
...Composers' Showcase at Greenwich Village's Circle in the Square presented six representative works by 55-year-old Italian Composer Luigi Dallapiccola, a visiting professor at New York City's Queens College and one of the best of contemporary twelve-tone composers. The works included his Two Studies for Violin and Piano, Five Fragments by Sappho for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, Five Songs for Baritone. Most of the music was in Dallapiccola's characteristic style-lyrical but contorted, warmer than the twelve-tone music of the Viennese School, expert in its blending of small instrumental combinations...