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Next day in Milan that intense person, Editor Arnaldo Mussolini (brother) clarioned in the family newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia...
Discerning Americans are learning that the U. S. has a musical institution quite as deserving of pilgrims from afar as Germany's annual Wagner festival at Bayreuth or the famed Opera at Paris (lately mediocre indeed) or La Scala at Milan (which badly misses Conductor Arturo Toscanini). To rustic Ravinia on Chicago's North Shore (20 mi. out) go more and more visitors each year, to hear what is easily the best summer opera to be found anywhere in the world...
Married. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, 61, general director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, divorced (1928) husband of Frances Alda, Metropolitan diva; secretly; to his friend of 26 years, Metropolitan première danseuse Rosina Galli, 33; at Jersey City, N. J. They first met in Milan when Miss Galli, 7, came to study in the Teatro Alla Scala of which M. Gatti-Casazza was then director...
Catholic Italy is not like Catholic Malta, whence last week Pope Pius XI received a sharp rebuff. In Milan one Eugenio Bassani, shopkeeper, recently spoke his mind. Last week he was convicted of "speaking ill of the Pope," was fined 1,000 lira ($52.39), sentenced to six months in jail...
...editor of the original Fascist paper Il Popolo d'ltalia in Milan, Signor Benito Mussolini was threatened constantly by the Socialist Chamber of Labor, kept a quantity of hand grenades about his office to cow "the enemy." An old employee, Margherita G. Sarfatti, writes in her authorized biography of Il Duce that "one day, the office boy, all unconscious of danger, was about to light the fire in the stove, just then full of bombs." She once reproved her editor gently thus: "Do you really think a bomb is quite a suitable thing to put a lighted cigaret...