Word: luigi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero of the battle in the Italian press was 32-year-old Amadeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Filippo Maria Guiseppe Giovanni, Duke of Apulia, cousin of the King, son of the Duke of Aosta, who commanded a squadron of pursuit planes. While the defeated Senussi, with their wives, children, oxen and asses fled like Joseph and Mary into Egypt, Duke Amadeo harried them mightily from the sky, raked them with blazing machine guns, whistling bombs. "Along the route," cabled a correspondent, "water wells at Matea, Bisciara, and elsewhere are filled with bodies...
...lecture on "Contemporary Literature in Italy." Averardi intends to deal particularly with the brilliant Italian dramatist. Luigi Pirandello, whose play, "Six Characters in Search of an Author" was very popular several years ago and who has several plays scheduled for the current theatrical season in New York...
...Died. Luigi Vittorio Fugazy, 92, Manhattan banker, champion of Italian immigrants, father of Fight Promoter Humbert Fugazy; after long illness; in New York...
...BOHEME, made in Italy by Italian singers, the Scala Chorus and the Milan Symphony conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $26)-One of the most satisfying of opera releases. Soprano Rosetta Pampanini (Mimi) and Tenor Luigi Marini (Rodolfo) sing in the approved Italian manner. The recording is excellent...
...Dressed in braided morning coat and black silk Fascist shirt, he marches into the presence of the dead, stands stone still at Fascist salute for two full minutes, then turns on his heel, departs. His Excellency behaved thus a little over a year ago on the death of Marshal Luigi Cadorna, Italy's Wartime Commander-in-Chief, disastrously defeated at the battle of Caporetto (1917). Last week he gave his mortuary salute again at the bier of Minister of Public Works Michele Bianchi, first of the Quadrumvirs (Fascist corps commanders of the famed March on Rome of October...