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...Puccini dying alone in a Brussels hotel while Bohéme was being played in Manhattan and a critic there was writing, "Wherever a fiddle scrapes, his songs are heard. . . ." Of Maestro Fortune Gallo shouting, "I tell you my name is Fortune. . . . I tell you opera will pay. . . ." Of Signer Serafin imposing his electricity on the wavering scores of Metropolitan experiments. ... Of Toscanini throwing down his cello in the Opera House in Rio de Janeiro one night in 1886 to conduct Aida by heart and win fame thereby. . . . But most of all, since his name occurred most often, one thought...
...Signer D'Annunzio, foremost of Italy's poets and World War heroes, spoke outside the canons of Anglo-Saxon good taste but spoke the truth. None the less, Hearst Editor Brisbane, conqueror upon no field of arms, and certainly of no spirit so exalted as the great Duse's, was moved to carp, last week, at Poet Gabriels...
Surfeited by whole years of public adulation, Signer Mussolini bethought himself suddenly last week of perhaps the most unnoticed and retiring woman in all Italy...
...five hours 30,000 Fascists stood waiting in the Piazza Ferrari, the largest square in Genoa, to hear Signer Mussolini. He came, stirred them to frenzy, departed, slept for the night in the Palazzo Ducale, once the Palace of the Doges...
...last day of the Manhattan season Signer Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced the novelties and revivals for next season. There will...