Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's Foreign Minister, and Edda Mussolini, Countess Ciano, influential daughter of Il Duce: their third child, a son; in Rome...
...Manhattan last week was a handsome, vivacious brunette of ample presence whose Roman and Catholic distinctions are as the sands of the sea. A niece and godchild of Pope Leo XIII, Countess Anna Laetitia ("Mimi") Pecci-Blunt received her first communion at the hands of the Pontiff himself. Her father, Count Camillo Pecci, was Commander of the Noble Guards of the Vatican and a leader of the "Blacks" who, before Conciliation with Mussolini in 1929, upheld the Papal Court in Roman society against the "Whites" who honored the King. Her mother was the Spanish Marquesa des Bueno, descendant...
Director of the Cometa Art Gallery in Rome, which gives exhibitions and encouragement to the pure artists of Italy, the Countess not long ago acquired second floor rooms on 52nd Street and the patronage of the Italian Ambassador, Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Lucrezia Bori and a host of other socialites for a second Cometa gallery in Manhattan. Thrilled and happy was the Countess last week to preside at an opening "Anthology of Contemporary Italian Painting" which gave Manhattanites such a view of Art under Fascism as they would not otherwise have found in the U. S. except...
...Triangle show is set in Restoration England. Vaporous Charles II, called to the throne from his nightshirt, wants to purchase the Isle of Blight, a French channel patch. As buying agents he sends the Duke of Clarendon, a villain with designs on the King's throne, and the Countess of Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle. The crown jewels...
...year-old title, Count Castelbarco had long been an art collector and ban vivant when he decided, seven years ago, to take up painting seriously. To Manhattan he brought, besides the self-portrait, some clear, flowing Italian landscapes, some easy, informal portraits. He brought as well his wife, the Countess Wally, daughter of Arturo Toscanini, famed conductor, whose hobby is painting. Herself unmusical, Countess Castelbarco likes to wear shoes modeled on those of the Medicis, made of cork, with five-inch heels, three-inch soles...