Music: Toscanini Service

When Siegfried Wagner last month followed his mother Frau Cosima (TIME, April 14) to a lingering death (TIME, Aug. 11) opera lovers all over the world wondered anxiously on whose shoulders would fall direction of Bayreuth's Wagner festivals. To his widow Siegfried willed complete musical, artistic, and financial charge. But Widow Wagner has a young family to rear. A strong man was needed, a genius to bring back the glory to Bayreuth.

Last week it appeared that Widow Wagner found him. He was a bushy haired little Italian with a fierce mustache,...

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