Word: luigi
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Died. Prince Scipione Borghese, 56, seven times a prince, six times a duke, seven times a marquis, twice a count, once a baron, overlord of twelve towns; from progressive paralysis, in Florence. With Luigi Barzini,- he won the famed Peking-to-Paris automobile race...
...natives smart with commands backed by steel. Two† of the four colonies have no native parliaments; and the other two** seemed about to lose theirs last week. At Rome the doom of every sort of native autonomy in Italian Colonies was sealed when Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni published, last week, the text of a law approved for enactment by Dictator Benito Mussolini...
...Last week was the death centenary of the man who first understood that electricity flows in currents measurable in pressure units. "Volts" and "voltage" were the work of Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. His compatriot and contemporary, Luigi Galvani of Bologna, observing the spasms caused in dead frogs' muscles by contact with mixed metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc...
Right You Are (If You Think You Are). Playwright Luigi Pirandello, like the Devil, seduces the idle. After years of temptation, the Theatre Guild succumbed last week to spending some unengaged time and talent on special matinees of a cerebral shadow dance wherein "the Italian Shakespeare" divides a flighty family against itself and lets in village gossips to decide who is crazy. There is no one crazy but someone's else thinking makes him so. The truth? What is truth? etc. etc. Two-thirds of it are lively entertainment, unless you think otherwise. Helen Westley does another...
...Died. Luigi Schipa, 88, father of Tenor Tito Schipa of the Chicago Civic Opera Co.; in Lecce, Italy. News was kept from Tenor Schipa until he finished a performance of Martha. Last summer Tenor Schipa, visiting Italy, arranged a special performance for his father...