Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whimsy, put on the stage, makes demands on the imagination that no other theatrical mode dare ask. "The Jealous Moon" is whimsy in a fantastic Italian comic setting. Pierrot, Columbine and Harlequin are on the tiny stage of a travelling puppet show, and above them, in the miniature flies of the little stage, are the human selves of Jane Cowl, Philip Merivale and Guy Standing, who pull the strings of the dangling waggle-headed dolls. In the second act Peter Parrot, played by Philip Merivale, dreams all the company of puppeteers into the character and garden scene of the miniature...
...blacksmith is Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, a personage well able to return with interest the lightning of Cardinal Gasparri's glance. Unquestionably these two sons of peasants are the greatest Italian statesmen of their century. They met face to face, last week, in the Lateran Palace, an austere and gloomy pile, presented to the papacy 16 centuries ago by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Successive pontiffs resided in the Lateran until removal of the papal residence to Avignon (1309 A.D.). It contains the Sanctum Sanctorum, Chapel, "Mother Church of Christen-dom"; reached by a'flight of steps...
...greatest extreme to which secrecy can be carried was achieved, last week, when not a single Italian newspaper was allowed to mention or even hint at what was going to happen, up to the very moment when the signing occurred. Thousands of Italians in rural districts knew nothing about it although the rumor spread fast by word of mouth. In the cities the sole source of printed information was newspapers imported from abroad. No explanation was made by either the State or the Papacy...
...Italian correspondent, a passenger on that ship has given to the world, in good straightforward newspaper style, the story of that fearful trek northward. The Soviet enemies of humanity are revealed as men brave in the performance of the highest duty laid on man, and the alternate hope and despair that filled their hearts as they searched the dreary wastes, week after week, find an answer in the reader, so simply and graphically is the tale told...
...interest in connection with Mr. Hofer's donation is the recent publication by the Cygnet Press of a facsimile reprint in Italian of the "Life of St. Jerome" which has been taken from several copies of an edition of his "Letters" printed at Ferrara by Lorenzo de Rossi in 1497 which are now owned by G. P. Winship '93 and Mr. Hofer. The Cygnet Press was founded by Mr. Winshop and Mr. Hofer, both of whom are members of the Signet Club of Harvard. In accordance with its name, the Press has adopted a young swan as its emblem...