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...Lexington, Ky., onetime first violinist in the Cincinnati symphony; Paul Althouse, of Reading, Pa., for ten years with the Metropolitan; Frenchman Mario Laurence. New baritones: Jean Vieuille from the Paris Opera Comique, Rudolph Bockelmann from Hamburg, Hans Hermann Nissen from Munich, Eduard Habich from Berlin, Salvatore Baccaloni from Milan, John Charles Thomas. A new stage director, Dr. Otto Erhardt, has come from the Dresden State opera. Soprano Edith Mason, divorced wife of musical Director Giorgio Polacco, will not return...
...Holidays were decreed: March 23 as the anniversary of the founding of the Fascist Party by Benito Mussolini & friends at Milan in 1919; February 11 as the anniversary of the signing of the Lateran Treaty creating the new Papal State in 1929 and cementing it in friendship with the Italian State...
...securities in Italy, sold Italian securities in the U. S., has been considered abroad as a good example of the great power obtain able in the U. S. And the fact that he was in Italy at the moment of his failure caused the financial districts in Rome, Naples, Milan to teem with excitement...
Toscanini's début was like a breath of warm invigorating spring blowing from his sunny Milan through the bleak Cosimaridden atmosphere of the Sacred Hill. His name and fame hung out the "Ausverkauft" (sold-out) sign in the Festspielhaus long before the first performance. His brilliant Tannhäusers and sublime Tristans outshone even the Parsifals of so great an oldtime Wagnerian as Karl Muck whose conducting has been one of the few bright spots of recent festivals. The German orchestra with which Toscanini worked, whose language he did not know, grumbled at first over the almost...
Toscanini's elevation would mark a final rupture with his longtime stronghold at Milan, rickety old La Scala. Henceforth Manhattan will engage his winters, Bayreuth his summers. Ructions with Italy's lantern-jawed dictator have expatriated him. In the recent Philharmonic triumph in Italy Mussolini attended none of the concerts, nor did he send any telegrams of congratulations...