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Italy's Graham McNamee is Maria Luisa Boncompagni. "Why," she asked last week, "does Italy have only women radio announcers, three in Rome, one in Naples, two in Milan, one in Genoa, and one in Bolzano...
...reason is because," continued Signorina Boncompagni, "women's voices carry better than...
...Rome, in the Augusteo Concert Hall built inside the ancient tomb of the Emperor Augustus, important listeners were her Majesty Queen Helena of Italy, Prince Boncompagni Ludovisi, Governor of Rome and U. S. Ambassador John Work Garrett. As it had in Paris, Zurich, Milan and Turin the press proclaimed the orchestra the greatest in existence, Toscanini the greatest of conductors...
...jail; gave 10,000 pairs of shoes to the poor; distributed lesser alms to 400,000. All objects deposited with Roman pawn shops between Jan. 1 and Feb. 15 last year and unredeemed to date were returned free to their owners as act of grace of Prince Ludovico Boncompagni, Governor of Rome...
Shortly the next gubernatorial "cycle" was begun in Rome by Don Francesco Boncompagni-Ludovisi, Prince of Piornbino, scion of a family from which have also sprung two Popes...