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ELEANORA DUSE, a study of the renowned actress by Italian Playwright Mario Fratti, will be playing at the Asolo Theater Festival at Sarasota, Fla., until Sept...
...small Asolo, northwest of Venice, townspeople took a day off last week to commemorate the great Italian actress who, dying in Pittsburgh, Pa., was buried in the Asolo graveyard exactly ten years ago. In her honor they dedicated a Duse Square, opened a museum of Duse memorabilia, rang up the first curtain on a Duse theatre...
Engaged. Austin Lament, Oxford student, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont; and Nancy L. Sullivan, of Boston and Asolo Veneto, Italy...
...Italy, and find the statue of George Washington which was modeled by Antonio Canova. This Canova was born on Nov. 1, 1757, at Passagno, an obscure village situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolo, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps as they subside into the plains of Treviso. He was the son of a long line of makers of local gravestones, but rose to fame and munificence as one of those who instituted the classical revival of Italian Art. He made statues of Palamedes, of Napoleon, of Hebe, of Hercules and also of George...