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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 615, 18 September 1909, Page 6

1 Signor Mascagtu autobiograpny, which will bo. , shortly in a book coritaiuing tbo lives of illustrious modem Italjans. He relates that onoo ho ob- ■ tained employment as a substitute loader of orelvestrn in ,an operetta'company' for five francs; a day, which was not paid regularly. While he was loading "Satanello" in .'Naples a song wm ; encored,, but ho refused to havo it repeated. The , audionce .'shouted • and ' .. • i howled ; stillMasoa'gni refused to repoat tho i song. Suddenly lie was struck' in tho back by a hpavy objoctVaqd ihwwn: off. his chair. ■! "It was^cushionhurled;from, tho. gallery" Mascagnisnys.. "I immediately ropoatodtho ' j song, and have never refused 1 an onooro smco." i When Mascagni was poor ho ate only a plato of .macaroni.every day. In 1885;'whilo he ■! was at Corignoia, bandmaster of, tho muni- ■ I cipal band and giving piano lessons, ,ho ; composed "Cavalleria," won th«'Sonzogno prize, . md ,bocamo. rich and famous./',.'-. ■-J ~