Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stories of restiveness verging on mutiny aboard British ships sent into the Mediterranean to intimidate Il Duce have several times been carried by Italian papers, generally ignored as "Mussolini whistling to keep his people's courage...
Last week London's "Augur." a respected news-pundit so close to His Majesty's Government that irate Italians have called him "the British Agent Augur" wrote off his own bat essentially what Il Duce has been whistling, served up the incipient mutiny of British tars in the Mediterranean to the British public as one reason for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's consenting to dismemberment of Ethiopia. "Augur" pictured the disgruntled salts "cooped up in the narrow quarters of ships of all descriptions beginning to resent the tension of inactivity they are under without visible cause. They...
...satisfy Italy, the League and Ethiopia (see p. 21). To make Emperor Haile Selassie more satisfied than he otherwise might have been, Dictator Mussolini opened up last week for the first time with 200-lb. air bombs (see p. 21). Premier Laval, who months ago as Foreign Minister sold Il Duce a free hand in Ethiopia so far as France is concerned (TIME, Jan 14), was glad to have The Deal approved last week by the British Foreign Secretary-disavowal of whom by His Majesty's Government would be an international scandal of the first magnitude- but he realized...
...Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore, uncontrolled laughter at Virginia Pemberton who as Micaela in Carmen gave the season's most inept performance. In Carmen Manager Longone interpolated a floor show by the popular dance team, Veloz & Yolanda. His innovation had its box-office effect but purists shuddered at his taste, as they...
This was comforting news for squadron commanders and Italian aviators, heartily weary of the overpublicized exploits of Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Ciano, but it was sad news for the World Press. Flung into a feudal land, correspondents in Addis Ababa and behind the Ethiopian troops have been able to send no first-hand news at all in eight weeks of warfare. Marshal Badoglio's order last week meant that all the elaborate mechanism of the international Press will take more time to tell the world less than did Editor Horace Greeley or Artist-Correspondent Winslow...