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Died. Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphilj-Landi, 71, last male descendant of the main branch of the famed Doria family, which traces its history to 12th century Genoa, owner (in Rome's Palazzo Doria) of one of the world's most celebrated private galleries (included: Velásquez' portrait of an earlier Pamphilj, Pope Innocent X); of arteriosclerosis; in Rome. A bitter antiFascist, who condemned Mussolini's war on Ethiopia, he suffered 15 years of mistreatment by Fascists, became wartime "underground governor" of Rome and, appointed by the Allies, the city's first postwar mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 17, 1958 | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Died. Elissa Landi, 43, novel-writing stage & screen actress (Count of Monte Cristo, Sign of the Cross), reputedly the granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth; of cancer; in Kingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...girl who passes the finals will receive, over the air, a free course in English from Italian-born Actress Elissa Landi (who is also a novelist). For the past three years Miss Landi has been teaching radio & television students at the College of the City of New York how to tidy up their bad accents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pygmalion | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Idea Man | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Brattle Hall puts on blue jeans and a straw hat Monday evening when Louise Falk and John Huntington open the 1945 Cambridge Summer Theatre season with Noel Coward's comedy, "Blithe Spirit," starring Elissa Landi. The play, which ran on Broadway for so long, is scheduled to run for one week, through Saturday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREVIEW | 6/8/1945 | See Source »

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