Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drill's end each day he dismissed a thoroughly exhausted cast -including Metropolitan Opera Baritones Giuseppe Valdengo (Falstaff) and Frank Guarrera (Ford), Contralto Cloe Elmo (Dame Quickly), Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman (Mistress Page) and Soprano Herva Nelli (Mistress Ford). But as they dragged themselves home, the inexhaustible maestro, 40 years the senior of the eldest of them, tramped out with a fresh and fearsome eye to rehearse his weekly NBC Symphony programs...
...cruel blow for Elliott Roosevelt (recently divorced by Actress Faye Emerson) and his new girl friend, Cafe Songstress Gigi Durston. Nightclub Maestro Sherman Billingsley, miffed that the couple had turned down his offer of an engagement party, issued a firm order to his staff barring Elliott and Gigi from his Stork Club...
Since then his palazzo has been filled with students. They browse through his library at will, sometimes approach Il Maestro with a question. Such interruptions are welcome. "For so many years under Fascism," Croce says, "not a single student came to me with his problems...
...Maestro Arturo Toscanini, pushing 83, was getting ready for a bit of traveling. Twenty days after his birthday next month, he plans to take the NBC Symphony on a six-week tour, conduct 21 concerts from New York to California...