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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In her love-affairs, Diana is rarely the one to suffer; and Author Ludwig has so arranged matters that her willing victims, though never forgetful, always forgive. Between diversions, Diana is the capable secret agent and business adviser of canny Millionaire Scherer. Only once is she the cause of tragedy...
On April 2, 1725, in Venice, was born Giacomo Giralamo Casanova, possibly a bastard, probably a most consummate liar, certainly a very exceptional rogue. His father, Gaetan, was ''amorous, but without means;" his mother, Zanetta, an actress, no better than she should have been. Young Casanova's...
The young Giacomo was clever, and when the opportunity of a priestly career fell in his way he seized it, extracted from it its advantages of education, social prestige, training in worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail...
Casanova was an imposing figure over six feet tall: "satiric, satanic, sensuous. An ugly man, swarthy, hawklike, with beady eyes . . . thin elongated nose." A charlatan, cardsharp, liar, forger, adulterer, seducer, jailbird, he was still a "student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly...
Loudly have jobless U. S. musicians complained against the new sound-film devices (TIME, May 27, et seq.). Last week in Geneva their complaint was internationally amplified before the International Labor Organization, associate organization of the League of Nations, which had called a committee to consider ways and means of...