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Last January i, Italy tried a new scheme to stimulate domestic production, already largely financed by taxes on U. S. films. Thought up by Minister of Popular Enlightenment Dino Alfieri, the scheme was to tax U. S. films even further by having them distributed in Italy not by their producers' agents but by a Government-financed monopoly. Last week it became apparent that the new scheme was another flop. Having tried it for a month, U. S. producers found the terms of the monopoly prohibitive, announced through Tsar Will Hays that they had entirely ceased distributing their pictures...
...Italy's Minister of Popular Culture, Dino Alfieri, last week ruled that Arnaldo Cortesi, Rome correspondent of the New York Times, must quit his job January 1, along with some 200 other Italian news men employed by foreign newspapers or press associations...
...finest, who yanked them by their coat collars off to jail. Next day the Socialist canton of Geneva expelled them all-some Italian journalists of ten years' standing with families in Geneva. But they received wires of praise from Italy's new Press & Propaganda Secretary Odoardo Dino Alfieri for a Fascist escapade at which the London Times looked down its stern nose thus: "Nothing else was wanting to add the last touch of dignity to one side of the contest and to remove the last traces of it upon the other...
Fascist Deputy Alfieri recounted the sterling qualities of the Crown Prince, said a fitting grant was necessary to keep up the royal traditions of the ancient House that was the pride of the Nation...
Lord Houghton, at the Scott Centenary, said of the world's great litterateurs, that they have seldom left descendants. England has no Shakespeare, no Milton, no Bacon, no Newton, no Pope, no Byron; Italy has no Dante, no Petrarch, no Alfieri, no Ariosto; Germany has no Goethe, no Schiller, no Heine; and France has no Montaigne, no Voltaire, and no Descartes...