Word: lire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revenue ...... 15,382,000,000 lire...
Expenditure 4,833,000,000 lire...
...Deficit ... 2,034,000,000 lire...
...midst of tumultuous scenes such as only Italian enthusiasts can supply, Arrigo Boito's Nerone was last week performed at the Scala. Toscanini conducted; the important singers were Aureliano Fertile, Rosa Raisa, Marcel Journet. Seats cost from 100 to 800 lire each. News of the opera was flashed by telegraph to Mussolini...
...orchestrated. The instrumentation was done by Tom-masini. The spectacles, upon which a whole school of painters, designers, costumers and stage managers have been engaged for more than a year, included the Appian Way, a temple, an orchard and the Circus Maximus of Imperial Rome. More than two million lire were spent on the preparations. The story, of course, ends with the devastating event of the burning of the city. All of which sounds like the text of an illustrated program of the latest D. W. Griffith cinema...