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...dramatic soprano made her a favorite in Berlin; Soprano Franca Somigli, who grew up in Manhattan as plain Marian Clarke, won fame four years ago in Europe and delighted Mussolini; Soprano Gina Cigna, who earned a gold medal studying piano at the Paris Conservatory, has been a star at Milan's La Scala ever since Toscanini recommended her there six years ago. Much was expected of Kerstin Thorborg, tall young Swede whose contralto won her first place at the Stockholm Royal Opera...
...most important speech since he conquered Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini in Milan last week urged France and England to scrap what he considers their political shibboleths and join Italy and Germany in ultimately un-Bolshevizing Russia. II Duce postulated that "Bolshevism is only super-Capitalism of a State carried to the most ferocious extreme. . . . The time has come to put an end to it!" He postulated further: "If there is a country where concrete, real and substantial Democracy has been realized, this country is Italy of the Fascist...
This week Premier Milan Stoyadinovich of Yugoslavia was reported so "frightened" by the Hitler-Ciano accord that he was about to throw over his country's close ties with France and recognize Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Since Yugoslavia is the "historic foe" of Italy, such news from Belgrade rang like victory in Rome...
Marta Abba chose the U. S. as one of the last theatrical worlds to conquer. Leaving the Milan Theatrical Academy in 1923, she was soon spotted by silver-whiskered Nobel Prizeman Luigi Pirandello, who gave her the lead in his Six Characters in Search of An Author. She has since done practically the whole library of the great theatrical metaphysician's plays, two of which are dedicated to her. In Europe and South America in the past decade Actress Abba's long, sensitive face, throaty voice and pleasantly awkward gestures have been seen in a repertoire ranging from...
...room in Manhattan's swank Wildenstein Galleries six statues went on view this week. All were formalized, slickly modeled, carved from most expensive materials. One female torso had been executed in rose Milan marble, a pinkish metallic veined stone so rare that it may no longer be exported from Italy. Averaging $5,000 apiece in price, all were the work of suave, spectacled Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski. At the same time word came from Paris that the Ministry of Fine Arts had decided to invest French taxpayers' money in two Lovet-Lorski pieces: a bronze nude...