Word: brigand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party at his ancient castle far up in the hills, whereupon Janey promptly despatches her male escorts on a cruise, and sets off for the hills with a guileless chaperon and two flappers. Arrived at the ramshackle castle, the prince mysteriously disappears. A servant explains that the most famous brigand in Sicily is in the district seeking that prince's blood. Janey interviews the bold bad bandit, arranges for the safe return of the rest of her party, and, not without a thrill, allows herself to be held as hostage...
...scene just described was recently cartooned for Punch, British weekly, to visualize the recent successes of Signor Mussolini in stamping out large numbers of the secret bandit gangs or "Mafia" in Sicily (TIME, Oct. 24, Jan. 23). Punch put into the mouth of its nearly strangled brigand a gasp: "If you destroy our secret societies you kill romance." To this the burly-but-impeccable victor, Signor Mussolini, replies: "Fascismo is all the romance Italy needs!" Last week the real Signor Mussolini lived up to his cartooned likeness by ordering that suppression of the criminal class in Sardinia shall at once...
...rough Riff Robin Hood is the protagonist in "The Desert Song", a tuneful expose of Mohammedan love-technique now on view at the Majestic Theatre. Yelept "The Red Shadow" (rhymes with "go, snow, or know") this brigand leads his turbaned tenors to several well-earned choral triumphs over Post 13 of the Moroccan Legion...
Died. Ornato Succu, 35, Sardinia's last brigand chief, killer of more than 60 men; by a shot from the Royal Italian Police, near Sassari, Sardinia...
...scenes, and to the musty files of the theatre for its plots, we shall thank God that some gracious chance has thrown Louis Lean Hall into the best pot-pourri. He, with an artistry unique in that cast, achieves the most fascinating transitions in play after play, from African brigand to English sea captain, from doctor to slave without the least show of strain. Long live his daily bread...