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...depths of bass tones, just to prove that it can be done. It is done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos, almost made the difficult Ginevra role take on the semblance of life and opera. Not less effective was Luigi Montesanto who boasted loudly, loved violently, killed mercilessly, in the person of Neri Chiaramentesi...
Bologna also produced Luigi Galvani, in the 18th Century, whose experiments with electricity and the nerves and muscles of the legs of frogs gave rise to "galvanism" and kindred terms. But it was not until the end of the 19th Century that Bologna again made a contribution of truly world-wide proportions. After the sausage came wireless telegraphy, whose founder's marital vicissitudes loomed in the press last week as his works do every week...
...Macchi Fiat monoplane. He was strapped in with a separate loop for each arm and leg, the whole contrivance fastening with a buckle on his chest. He creased his wind-stiffened face into a smile for the photographers. In the timers' stand, beside a direct wire to Rome, Luigi Freddi, special correspondent of Dictator Mussolini's paper Popolo d'ltalia, sent his news. Before the race the Dictator had sent Major Bernardi a message, couched in his customary Napoleo-Caesarian rhetoric: "All Italy prays for your success". . . . Now Major de Bernardi made reply. "Your prayers have been...
Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni, famed henchman of the Vatican (TIME, July 12), presented for the Cabinet's approval last week, a decree nearly as drastic as the deflation measure sponsored by Finance Minister Count Volpi...
...whole dramatic library has flowed from the devious but prodigiously brilliant pen of Professor Luigi Pirandello. His academic intimates know him as an erudite philosopher philologist. But to the world he is the playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Last week he contrived in actuality at his Roman villa a drama as "Pirandellic" as any of his numerous plays-famed for his knack of creating characters (like his Henry IV) who are not what they seem. Early in the week Signor Pirandello had received a visit from two friends with a mutual grievance: Playwright Massimo Bontempelli...