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Some weeks ago the Metropolitan Opera Company entertained a composer of an opera in its repertory. Italo Montemezzi, "honored guest" at a gala performance of his own L'Amore dei Tre Re, was crowned on the stage with a wreath. Now a similar event has taken place. Max Schillings, upon visiting America, was a guest at a performance of his own Mona Lisa, which was given last year for the first time in American (TIME, May 19). Schillings was not crowned with a wreath. He does not, indeed, deserve a wreath; his opera is not half as good...
...Mussolini Electoral Law, which guarantees the majority Party two-thirds of the seats in La Camera dei Deputati, was passed by the Senate by 165 to 41 votes. It passed the Chamber of Deputies last session (TIME, July...
...MARIONETTES?The Teatro dei Piccoli of Rome presenting an odd novelty. Said to be "the best since Hector was a puppet...
...vote of 335 to 139 the Camera dei Deputati passed a vote of confidence in the Government, considered tantamount to passing the bill for electoral reform, which gives two-thirds of the seats to the party that gets a plurality of the votes. It was a great personal triumph for Mussolini. He had said he would have his way and he got it. At the conclusion of a rough, dictorial speech he exclaimed: "What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!" Ex-Premiers Orlando and Giolitti congratulated him; the entire Chamber rushed and hoisted him shoulder high...
...Fascisti and the nationalists, who were forced to join the ranks of Fascismo, only hold 50 seats out of a total of 430 in the Camera dei Deputati. This huge majority is kept in its place from fear of the Fascist organization outside Parliament...