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...Luigi Fernandi, owner of the lion (name: Prince), thought that was well enough. When the bloodthirsty crowd yelled for more spectacle, he demurred. He was arrested and Prince was returned to the ring. As Prince leaped again to meet the bull's charge, a horn impaled him, killed him, to the huge delight of the San Luis Potosians...
...Characters In Search Of An Author, rated by most critics as Luigi Pirandello's best play, was first presented in the U. S. eight years ago. Like all Pirandello plays, it is clouded with metaphysical vaporings. "What is Reality?" the dramatist asks. "What is Illusion...
...last minute, suspense had been terrific lest Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI should forbid Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano, Archbishop of Palermo, to officiate. Well the Holy Father knew that at this wedding there would be present those two accursed agitators for the Royalist cause in France, Editor Leon Daudet of L'Action Française and his doughty fellow editor, Charles Maurras. If they were present as guests, declared the Supreme Pontiff in his final ultimatum to Monseigneur le Due de Guise, then no Cardinal could possibly officiate...
...this reason accursed Mm. Daudet & Maurras came not as guests but as reporters, slyly laughed up their Royalist sleeves at Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano who performed the ceremony, imparted a nuptial blessing and celebrated low mass while Princess Isabelle quietly wept...
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...