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...recognized the first good one in a long time. Nearly every classic Italian comic opera has a basso buffo, a comic bass. He wears a false nose, false belly, or both, and is not expected to have much of a voice. Fourteen years ago, when Arturo Toscanini conducted Milan's great La Scala opera, he asked one of his young bassos, Salvatore Baccaloni, to specialize in buffo roles, so that La Scala need not rely on rickety-voiced oldsters...
...exchange within the Axis. Titian-dyed, corseted Italian Coloratura Soprano Toti dal Monte (a onetime success in the U. S.) sang to great applause in Berlin. The Cologne Opera is touring The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy; the Frankfurt am Main Opera the Balkans. The Berlin State Opera will visit Milan and Rome this spring; the Rome Opera will visit Germany...
...were overstated. Successive Greek "victories," when traced on the map, sometimes turned out to be steady Italian advances. A mysterious bombing by Italian-type planes of Bitolj, Yugoslavia, which caused a stir of feeling and was followed by the resignation of the Yugoslavs' anti-Italian Defense Minister, General Milan Neditch, may have been a punishment for grotesquely pro-Greek accounts of the war emanating from Belgrade. Qualities of fantasy crept into the dispatches. The Italians were said to be deserting in droves, drowning themselves in flooded gorges, perishing of cold and hunger, suffering from the forays of wolves...
...same time, the British canceled their order to pilots to bring all bombs home if the specified target could not be found. For the first time since September, the R. A. F. reminded Italy that she was vulnerable from the north by dropping big bomb loads on industrial Milan, Turin, Aosta, Verona...
When invective is the ammunition, Italy is quick to fire. The press accused Britain of breaking explicit agreements not to use chemical warfare. The dropping of the phosphorus calling cards was the signal, said Corriere della Sera of Milan, "of a new method of offensive to which fit reply must be given." Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia echoed ominously with a new version of the Mosaic law: "Two eyes for one, two teeth for one, and so on until they cry, 'Enough...