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...Sanger outwitted Premier Mussolini of Italy, who treasures fecundity, by traveling as Mrs. J. Noah H. Slee. "Of course," she gleefully boasted soon as she was beyond his reach: "I did not get into Rome. But I managed to hold many private meetings on birth control. In Venice and Milan I had more demand for secret lectures before women's clubs than I could supply...
Before the Senator embarked on his year of innovation, La Stampa had 200,000 circulation. Last week it reached 295,000, was stepping hard on the heels of the panting leader, Milan's Corriere della Sera...
...Seats at Milan's La Scala sold for as high as $38 apiece one night last week. Black-shirted Fascists peppered the brimming opera audience. When a thick-set old man showed himself in the orchestra pit the whole house broke into a bedlam of cheers. "Evviva, evviva Mascagni...
...been chiefly with France. Because other parts of the Dictator's speech breathed bombast, most commentators dismissed it as all bombast. In Paris clear-headed old Louis Barthou saw things differently. Secret pourparlers began. II Duce told nearly half a million Italians, pack-jamming Cathedral Square in Milan' that he was up to something (TIME, Oct. 15)-"Our relations with France have very greatly improved in recent times," he cried. "We hope soon to reach an accord which will be very fruitful." When hubbub greeted this announcement Mussolini said in a fatherly way to his blackshirts, "Your reactions...
...voice, the authority of his acting. Giovanni Martinelli sang the "Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last B flat until the gallery was almost beside itself. To crown the performance Gatti had a new conductor, Ettore Panizza, onetime conductor of the Scala in Milan. Conductor Panizza is a lean, sparse-haired man who wears pincenez and a measly mustache. But he quickly proved himself a sure-fire opera leader, made the tunes so fetching that even the boxholders were hard put to it not to whistle...