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...Lake Garda, Italy, Loretta Turnbull, 18-year-old Monrovia, Calif, out-boarder, competed against the best professional drivers in Europe for the PFN cup, put up by the Fascist Party in a meet organized by Poet-Out boarder Gabriele d'Annunzio. She drove her Sunkist Kid V across the line first in the first heat, second in the next after fixing her motor which had faltered at the start, won the cup on her average time...
Next move of Satan is to create "from the most lurid infernal material" Francesco Saverio Nitti and make him Prime Minister of Italy. Under Nitti Bolshevism almost strangles Fascism, but God the Father in the nick of time sends Hero Garibaldi in a dream to Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. Counseled by Garibaldi, aided by Mussolini, d'Annunzio rushes to the rescue of the Roman Victory, severs her chains and leads her triumphant to Fiume...
...usual large number of foreign cars, Minerva and Isotta Fraschini being the only importations. Isotta bodies are made by famed Castagna of Milan. President of the U. S. Isotta sales company is Ugo V. D'An-nunzio, son of Italy's Poet-Soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio. Short, plump, light-com-plexioned, modest, 43, Son D'Annunzio came to the U. S. in 1917 to supervise the manufacture of Caproni bombing planes at Fisher Body plant. He returns to Italy once a year, spends evenings discussing aviation and literature with his father. Italians remember that...
...because there are no ranking Italian producing companies. Some 70% of the 2,500 cinema theatres in Italy are supplied by U. S. products. Yet once Italy was powerful in the cinema. Italian-made Quo Vadis? started in 1913 a fashion for historical spectacles. Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio wrote and directed Cabria. But since 1916 native Italian cinemas have deteriorated. Premier Mussolini has his private theatre, equipped for talkies. For a while he banned all cinemas in foreign tongues. Later he changed this edict, permitting foreign talk if the picture was musical comedy or operetta...
From what was a "peasant's house" d'Annunzio created an exotic mansion and a shrine to genius (his). Its courtyard is the Piazza di Sospiri ("Palace of Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when...