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Born. To Vittorio Mussolini, 21, II Duce's chubby, film-producing eldest son, and Milanese Orsola Buvoli Mussolini, 23; their first child, a son, Guido; in Rome. Nine days before, Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano had given II Duce another grandson; five weeks before, Sylvia De Rosa Mussolini, Vittorio's cousin Vito's wife, had borne a son, Arnaldo, won a 1,000-lira bet from Orsola by having her baby first...
...Nicolaas Berchem, Phillips Wouwerman, Willem van Bemmel, Jakob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Rubens. Among the paintings which had been cleaned off and hung decently were a Madonna by Andrea del Sarto, portraits by the Elder and Younger Lucas Cranach, a panel by Pieter ("Hell") Breughel, works of Poussin, Van Dyck, Guido Reni, Durer, Tintoretto...
...life and listened to Duse's reminiscences. Curtain Call is a futile and impertinent attempt to stir the ashes of Duse's affair with Gabriele D' Annunzio. Feebly directed and stuffily acted by Ara Gerald and a supporting cast which includes Elaine Cordner, Selena Royle and Guido Nadzo, it achieved the ultimate indignity of being laughed at by first-nighters in passages intended to be solemn...
...Podestá Guido Pesenti sat Respighi's plump, 43-year-old widow. Donna Elsa could scarcely see the stage for tears. When the performance ended, the audience roared its thanks to her, knowing that she had finished her husband's last work when he had to lay it down...
...full cast had gathered in the Opera House to rehearse for the 40th time the third act of Richard Hageman's Caponsacchi, scheduled for its U. S. première this week. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett was singing the role of murderous Count Guido who stabs to death his wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied...