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...buffeted nation might be finding its soul. It might be reaching back across the years to pick up again the democratic thread woven in a history of foreign oppression and domestic tyranny. Before Magna Charta and King John, Italy's northern cities had won self-rule from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Florence and Venice had once borne the title of republic. But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph and Ghibelline, despot and noble, rival Spaniard, Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself...
Married. Elissa Landi, 38, novel-writing stage & screen actress, granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth (whose daughter, Elissa's mother, was never acknowledged by the Emperor); and Curtiss Kinney Thomas, 37, author; she for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Shanghai. Although Mei's mastery of the masks, makeup, swords and fans of plot-bare, nuance-encrusted Chinese plays mystified Manhattan theatergoers in 1930, he was the biggest box-office name in China and long top-ranking tan (father of two sons, he always played feminine roles). Emperor Hsuan-tung confirmed his title, "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" -Chinese equivalent of an "Oscar...
...girl astride a cannon and fire it off again & again while, with the one good eye the wars had left him, he studied her reactions. Eugenie became a Napoleon-cultist, a frenzied romantic. After the death of her father, Eugenie and her mother wintered in Paris, where the new emperor, Louis Napoleon, fell passionately in love with her. But her marriage (in 1853) was no love match; she was infatuated by a symbol, and managed to trap...
Erotically, she was a child. As for the Emperor, less complicated women dropped in his lap like plums, but he had neither the skill nor the patience to make a good wife of Eugenie...