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...Rome no interpreters were necessary since II Duce speaks fluent English. Premier Mussolini rushed forward and pump-handled his guest vigorously, then accompanied him to the palatial Villa Madama. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano warmly greeted Lord Halifax. There was nothing of the lavish display put on in Rome for Adolf Hitler's visits. Total cost of Mr. Chamberlain's three-day entertainment was only $5,000. But the Italian people, many of whom believe that it was the British statesman and not II Duce who kept them out of a war in September, gave Mr. Chamberlain...
...Berlin for a courtesy call. Last week it was the turn of Hitler's Foreign Minister, Baron Constantin von Neurath, to go to Rome. Count Ciano welcomed his portly confrere who rode around town and laid wreaths on appropriate tombs, ended up with a champagne-popping at Villa Madama, Rome's lush residence for distinguished guests...
...heard an ably done Aïda (Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Russian Contralto Faina Petrova, Baritone Giuseppe Danise, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, a bespectacled stage band in the triumph scene) ; a Lohengrin (Tenor Gotthelf Pistor, Soprano Maria Müller, Baritone Friedrich Schorr, all fresh from Bayreuth) ; Andrea Chenier and Madama Butterfly. There were to be seven more performances, all sung by a distinguished troupe but none of them novelties. Most memorable event of the season, about which San Franciscans were still talking and laughing, had come with the opening night. Mârouf, by French Composer Henri Benjamin Rabaud...
Among the group are views of the villa of Madama at Rome, which was designed by Raphael and two designed by Vignola, the Villa Lante at Viterbo and the Villa Farnese at Caprarola. The pictures, in addition to their purely artistic value as landscapes, offer an unusual opportunity in the study, of the details of Italian landscape architecture of the Renaissance with the typical use of marble pools, statuary, cypresses, and garden terraces, together with the employment of the mural niche, an adaptation of which was employed in the construction of the Widener Library...
...selections of the "Pops" Concert at Symphony Hall at 8 o'clock this evening have been chosen for Amherst Night, but the concert will be open to the public. The program is as follows: 1. Tirumphal march from "Aida" Verdi 2. Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Suppe 3. Fantasia "Madama Butterfly" Puccini 4. Campus Dreams Lord Geoffrey Amherst E. M. Blake 5. "Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg 6. Prelude Rachmaninoff 7. Third Movement from the "Patheic" Symphony Tschaikowsky 8. "To the Fairest College of them all" D. C. Bartlett Organ--Carl Lamson 9. Selections from "lady Billy" Levey 10. Gypsy Dance...