Scald's Period

When the music-loving Milanese got the news of Mussolini's downfall, they promptly demonstrated before La Scala Opera House, loudly cried "Toscanini must open the new opera season" (TIME, Aug. 9). For twelve years Maestro Toscanini, most famous of all Italian antiFascists, had refused to conduct in Italy. Under his leadership (off & on from 1898 to 1925), La Scala had become a sort of Vatican of Italian opera, had never sounded the same since he left. Last week history put a period to Milanese hopes: the Italian Government reported that La Scala Opera House had been destroyed by Allied bombs.

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