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Italian screenwriter, director, librettist, playwright, author, journalist, and music critic. He was born in Verona on either February 4, 1878 or November 4, 1878 (major reference works differ). He graduated with a law degree from the University of Padua, but rather than entering the legal profession, he devoted himself to literature. He worked for several years as the theatre critic for the Verona Arena. In 1912, Adami published his first play, a one-act entitled La leggenda della Valacchia, in La Lettura, a monthly magazine of the Corriere della Sera. Within a year or so, he had had his first staged production of a play, I fioi di Goldoni. More productions, most of them sentimental comedies, followed. He dabbled in writing scenarios for early Italian films, but his greatest claim to fame came in 1917 when he began a rich association with composer Giacomo Puccini. Adami wrote the libretti for three of Puccini's operas: La rondine, Il tabarro, and Turandot (the last in collaboration with Renato Simoni). Adami also wrote librettos for other composers, such as Riccardo Zandonai, for the opera La via della Finestra. He was a music critic for the Milan magazine La sera and, from 1931 to 1934, he wrote for the magazine La commedia. He continued throughout these years writing plays, and in 1937, he returned to the cinema to write a number of screenplays, some of which were based on his plays and other writings. Adami published the first collection of Puccini's letters (Giacomo Puccini: epistolario [Milan, 1928]) and in 1935 published the first of his two biographies of Puccini. He worked as a publicist for the Ricordi publishing firm, whose head, Giulio Ricordi, had introduced him to Puccini and who was the subject of another Adami biography. He was associated with Ricordi until his death in Milan, October 12, 1946. Giuseppe Adami is buried at the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano.- Production Designer
- Art Director
Yevgeni Lansere was born on 4 September 1875 in Pavlovsk, St. Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a production designer and art director, known for Suramis tsikhe (1922), Anush (1931) and Gore ot uma (1952). He died on 12 October 1946 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Joseph W. Stilwell was a four-star general in n the US Army during World War II. He headed the US campaign against Japanese forces in both Burma and China, the Chinese Nationalist government having such confidence in him that they gave him command of its forces in that theater.
Born in Palatka, FL, in 1883, Stilwell attended the US Army's Military Academy at West Point, NY, graduating in 1904. He served in the Philippines, then with the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during WW I. After that he became an instructor at West Point. He studied and became fluent in the Chinese language, and was posted to the Chinese city of Tienjin from 1925-28 and was US military attache in Beijing from 1935-39.
With the advent of World War II, Gen. Kai-Shek Chiang, the head of the Chinese Nationalist government, placed Stilwell in command of the Chinese Fifth and Sixth Armies in Burma. The Japanese had more and better equipped and trained troops, however, and in 1942 Stilwell's forces were driven out of Burma into India after a brutal 140-mile retreat through the jungles. Stilwell was eventually given command of all US forces in the China-Burma-India theatre. In 1945 Stilwell accepted the surrender of 100,000 Japanese troops in the Ryukyu Islands, ending the war in the Pacific. - Actor
E. Sorral was born on 16 November 1887 in Alabama, USA. He was an actor. He died on 12 October 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.