Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characteristic of excellent plays, the story is to be experienced rather than understood. Suffice it to say that a young Italian boy has a choice between music and prize-fighting as a career; he chooses the latter and regrets it. Luther Adler as the fighter is excellent, and Francis Farmer as his embittered Sweetheart gives a fine performance though she lacks dramatic finesse at times. Perhaps the best performance is presented by Morris Carnowsky as the fighter's father. Sanford Meisner is perfect as the gangster manager, and high honors are also due to Roman Bohnen as Miss farmer...
Pompously the Grand Council decreed last week that henceforth no Italian, male or female, may marry a non-Italian unless the Italian Ministry of Interior is willing to make an exception and issue a special permit for such mixed marriage. Further, the Grand Council, well knowing that Italian males have been prone to "go native" with Ethiopian females, issued a veiled but stern decree for punishment of "anyone who performs any act that might injure the prestige of the Italian people in territories of the Empire." Finally, the Grand Council, taking cognizance of the fact that Britain has for years...
Promptly, U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, in a formal note to Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, protested against any discrimination against the 200 U. S. Jews now resident in Italy. Listing the liberties of commerce and worship enjoyed by Italians in the U. S., the note "believed" that "upon further consideration" the Italian Government would not apply these restrictions to U. S. subjects...
...tired of talking to people who say 'Yes'." Dr. Chvalkovsky last week became the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, will handle many cards of a new deal for his country. He at once left for Berlin, where last week the British-French-Czechoslovak-German-Italian commission set up at Munich was drawing the new Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter and occupy the zones allotted them and Adolf Hitler darted in & out of his new Sudetenland, alternating Sudeten celebrations in his honor with business in Germany. A fine, heavy bouquet of thorny flowers hurled...
...subsidiary, American Export Air Lines, Inc., starts flying the Atlantic. Along one wall stood a huge map of the North Atlantic. Dotting the 3,445-mile course from Manhattan to Lisbon via the Azores were India-ink silhouettes of 14 ships, nine American Exporters, five Fascist-run Italian Liners...