European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday january 16, Italy opera houses reach a sad Rome a opera is fading fast from this land where the Lyric theater was born. Italy s famed Bel Canto has Given Way to the pop change has come despite desperate efforts of the coun try s famed conservatories of music and the massive subsidy of $20.8 million a year paid by the italian government to the nation s opera s 17 opera Heaters still Are full or nearly full during the opera season. But often As Many As 50 per cent of the tickets Carefree handouts to keep up appearances. The old opera classics have failed to attract a new Genera Tion of italians who shriek and swoon for the pop singers. An there have been few new operas. Perhaps the last of the Fame composers was Pietro Mascagni who died in 1945, and he was known Only for one outstanding work Cavalleri the Only other classics Thi Century were the last works of Giacomo Puccini who died in1924. He gave the 20th Century his Turando and the girl of the Golden West which had its debut in 1911 at the metropolitan in new York with Caruso As Tenor and Arturo Toscanini a conductor those were the Days when Al most any italian Down to the labourer in the Street could sin from memory his favorite Arias from the great operas. The average italian still sings. But it is no longer the old Bel Canto. He sings the pop music of television shows and the disc and tape recordings. At a recent quiz for teen a Emusic fans on Italy s state run television 10 out of 10 youth knew the name of the wife of pop Singer Gianni Morandi but not one could remember who composed the Lyric Heaters held their hand out for state subsidy Italy s television was paying out $1.92 million in lottery prizes pegged to a weekly to Competition among pop singers. The names of pop stars Caterina casello Milva Mina Rita Pavone Gianni Morand and Adriano Celentano Are As Well known in Italy today As the names of Enrico Caruso an Beniamino Gigli used to be in the heyday of opera. The great conservatories Santa Cecilia in Rome Milano in Milan and san Pietro a mail la in Naples still turn out their painstakingly trained graduates. But few of these in this last generation have turned to anything like opera. They write the score for films or appear in to music shows. The Money and the Job opportunities Are and fewer italians re member the names of Giuseppe Verdi Vincenzo Bellini Gaeta no Donizetti Giacomo Puccini or Gioacchino and fewer italians than Ever sit through a whole performance of Tosca the bar Ber of Seville la Boheme Aida Madame Butterfly once Italy s opera houses sent out to the world s Heaters such great directors As Toscanini Tulio Serafin Antonio Guarnieri and Victor de Sabata. Now the greatest Lyric theater i Italy la Scala of Milan brings in such foreign director Sas austrian Herbert von Kara still has some Lyric sing sir John kept stiff upper lip London up it was March Day in London. There was violence with police an demonstrators Hurt As the bottles Sticks and stones flew. At the front lines was Londo police commissioner sir j o n n Waldron watching How his me dealt with the protesters. His dress no hard helmet or Nightstick or weapon. As sir John dodged the mis Siles he wore a stiff starched White Collar and Black tie. A Light businessman s Over coat. A Pinstripe suit. A Bowler hat at slightly rakish Angle. And of course he carried a tightly rolled Black umbrella. Only in Britain would you seethes one foreigner at the scene Aid. Ers who tour the opera houses of the world As guest stars. They Are Shenata Tebaldi an Monletta Stella Giuseppe do Stefano Mario Del Monaco Anda few others. But the great la Scala has been applauding such foreign singers As Sweden s Brigitt Nilsson and Vladimir Kmentt of Vienna american singers Grac Bumbry and leontyne Price Gwyneth Jones of Wales and John King John Wilkes and Peter Glossop from half dozen. Of Italy s top stars some of them Little More than out of their teens have bought $100,000 Villas from their to earnings and disc recording in the quiet of the Giuseppe Verdi old artists Home a Milan a Hundred stars of Italy s Lyric theater stages and orches tra pits Are living out their twi Light years without , now remembered by few Are such old time perform ers As orchestra musician Al Fredo Giordanengo 94 Giusepp Pasquini 92, once famed Tenor and the newest arrival in theold artists Home and 80-year old Soprano Bianca Stagno Bel a Inciong who once Sang on some of the world s most famous stages. Defense dept. Estimate of War Drain disputed Washington up the defense department has Esti mated that the Vietnam War was having a $1.6 billion Adverse Impact on the . International finance position. But a private analyst said the War was having a much worse effect. Defense department comp troller Robert c. Moot said in prepared testimony for a join economic subcommittee of con Gress that about $1.6 billion of the . Balance of payments deficit was attributable to the Vietnam War. But Peter Passell said in his prepared testimony that a special analysis he prepared fora doctoral paper at Yale University showed the figure was More like $4 billion. In 1967 the United states ran up a total balance of payments deficit of $3.6 billion represent ing the difference Between the total outflow of dollars through imports and military transactions and the amount coming inform exports. The . Treasury and other Federal government depart ments have estimated that the War in Vietnam contributes approximately $1.5 billion to the net outflow of american Dol Lars Passell said. He said his analysis however showed that the effect of the War was slightly in Access of $4 billion which presumably would have put the United states in a favourable balance of payments situation in 1967. Whenever the United state runs into the red in its financial transaction other governments holding dollars could claim Gold from . Stocks thus weaken ing the world position of . Currency. Passell said the defens department failed to take into account secondary and indirect effects of War expenditures on International Trade and balance 4ehrs to the editor Battle of words of payment example Passell said the War has meant . Defens suppliers have had to increase imports of goods used to manufacture military supplies. Also he said War production has taken a priority among some manufacturers Over production of goods designed for overseas markets. After the War is Over passel said exporters May find it difficult to recapture los foreign markets and Domestic users of imports May continue to buy moot who was named by the incoming Nixon administration to stay on As the chief defens accountant outlined Economy moves the Pentagon has taken to reduce the Adverse effect of defense spending on the . World Trade posture. He said various procurement and construction program economies have saved about $400million a year in overseas spending. Another witness William , administrator of the Agency for International development told the panel that the foreign Aid program was helping the balance of payments program. He said in 1968 the United states showed a Favora ble balance of payments Posi Tion amounting to $177 million through the foreign Aid policy of buying mainly . Goods for , Gaud said he believed the United states has gone As far As we should in helping the balance of pay ments program by restrictions imposed on the foreign Aid pro Gram. Gaud said present restriction Sand guidelines requiring Pur Chase of specified . Goods has made the foreign Aid pro Gram More costly than if products were purchased competitively. Your question Mark pertain ing to the word cd lunar Jan. 8 is was not warranted i anything you should have used a any Man woman or child will Tell you the cerium is body Armor of overlapping leather flaps used both by the romans and the English till the reign of Edward i. It is no unlike the Cuirass which could also be called a pair of Cuirasses but Only if you did if fact have two of them. Tasse were often attached thereto. This went on f6r years no body complained nobody wrote to the editor until Edward i the Sissy came along and made everybody Start wearin starched White shirts. That s when the trouble you Are overcome with admiration in the face of so much knowledge i want to Tell you that when the is is late we have the unabridged Webster with our Coffee. If however somebody happens to be using our Webster to sit on we go to the Small print of the is to learn that Rubus Carmen Tum Means dry a it is not my intention to engage you in a Battle of words but since you had an other question Mark regarding the cerium i must once again refer you to the diction Webster s International de fines cerium As the Derma or deeper vascular and a snal Tive layer of the skin the Cor responding layer of the any More ques Tion Marks Louis Fischer Rhein main Germany editor the most Freedom i know not much about Ora tory but of a free ballot and a free country i know know that we have the country with the most Freedom in the world for i have trav eled in countries which Carefree and have the right to vote and in those which Are not i have seen the despair on the faces of the people in Easterlin and i have seen half starved dogs and machine guns guarding the Berlin Wall defying anyone to escape. Haven Ridden the Freedom train through the Black Wall of communism and seen the suspicion of the people who live have seen the hunger along the streets of Korea and have seen the same suspicion an want for Freedom As i looked to North Korea. I say to you or. And , if you could see what i have seen there wow be no riots no discontent and no hate Between Black and , there would be Admira Tion for the land in which you live the rights and freedoms which you have and Abbyie All or the fact that you Are an american. I think the fact that we reborn into this Freedom often makes us take it for granted. 1st sgt. Harold l. Holland Wertheim Germany Mexico in Asia Aper pays for print ing the Henry a Taylor Motif your a � f a. Urn you May consider sending me some Money for writing that Mexico is in Asia and that four plus five is 12. Taylor column of dec. 25 about Istanbul has As much truth As my facts above. He writes there Are 168 Lega holidays in Istanbul that s darn near half a year he add that every Friday is a Moham Medan Holiday implying Busi Nesses Are closed. For More than 40 years Turkey has operated on a Western work week monday through Friday an often half a Day saturday. The biggest Boner is Taylor incredible Assurance that the Blue mosque was once Hagi Sophia. Was Rockefeller Center once the Empire state build ing hag a Sophia has stood in Majestic splendor for More than 1,400 years. Further up the Road is the impressive an grand Blue mosque a few Cen Turies . Sgt. John Noonan a remin Derau letters to the editor must contain full name and address of the writer and must be signed. All correspondences confidential. The writer s name will be deleted upon re quest. The editors Reserve the right to edit and condense let ters. European coition it. Cou. F. 8, Michael jr., a of editor in chief Mert Proctor Mana Olno. E prefix 01w lit m Karnuta Dalr trip prefix 7 741, Tele m1� pm. New York offices my a Nina on to. New York 10014, Tell Are code 1w hwt7i, Leeond ohm Pottage paid at new York . Kwi Mayaut undo. Bob Hoyer Ord of he Touth Ruhp South Rule lip myth try Viking 84�i aug Ihburg. Germany Glenn May muted Bayern in put pc Mca Ern Augsburg military s7m. Nuernberg Germany Jay Leflon army hotel Nuernberg military 81zj rom. Circulation office Oer Mawyin Berlin Civ my Somsri Urmi oiv.4m41, Mil 7m ctr 10m0r, my off Ibeh so Kaler Lautem. Civ o7l7, Mil Vogel Weh Munich. 0t41smw, Mil 7j6.i a trn car Civ two Mil w13civ 7z�i la Badan Civ 407w, Mil Mem. Oreece Athen. Civ �w1. Luly. Darby ims Spain i Madrid Civ St Toto it 70mwtii\a, Civ a Tiv in Islip aps Mai sow pm a
