Word: italian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mountain climber) dis approves of certain modern excesses in athletics, especially where women are concerned. The Papal stand was again emphasized, last week, when Osservatore Romano, famed spokesorgan of the Vatican, thundered at Rome : "Gymnastic and athletic competitions for girls offend the Christian sentiments and the customs of our Italian civilization and of our people, and no historical analogies and no appeal to the traditions of other countries can justify them. The Roman Catholic Church has invariably and everywhere manifested its open and irrevocable opposition to such sports and it is backed by all people who entertain sentiments of gentility...
...Three Italian Folk Songs...
Although the I. I. of E. C. will operate on funds supplied by the Italian Exchequer, it is under the political aegis of the League of Nations. Also established in Italy this year, under the same potent patronage and auspices is The International Institute of Private...
...human interest story. Three years ago it was Sopranos Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Last year it was Soprano Grace Moore. All were "poor girls" who had their dreams, worked hard, lived right. This year so far honors go to Soprano Clara Jacobo, 28, daughter of an Italian grocer, who made her debut last week in Il Trovatore...
...Ashes. Kenneth Vail (Hugh Sinclair) lived idly in St. Moritz, Switzerland, had philanderer's blood of Alpine frigidity. There were four bothersome women, many bothersome creditors. He faked a death, eluded the creditors, could not elude one blonde (Natalie Schafer). But by that time his Wood was rather Italian. Playwright Leonard Ide uses the episodic development with flashbacks lately popularized by Novelists Wilder & Bromfield. The second episode, with Ralph J. Locke as a French husband whose adjustment to his wife's infidelity shows skilled amorous economics, is the funniest. Otherwise the froth refuses to bubble...