Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Went Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, to visit the fair island of Sicily...
Premier Benito Mussolini planned a great opera house; his Ministers approved it as a matter or course. The opera is to be worthy of comparison with those of Milan, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Manhattan. The stage is to be the "largest in the world" and the theatre is to seat 4000. The edifice is to cost about $150,000, will be situated in the Via Vittoria Veneto, most beautiful modern street in Rome...
...scenes such as only Italian enthusiasts can supply, Arrigo Boito's Nerone was last week performed at the Scala. Toscanini conducted; the important singers were Aureliano Fertile, Rosa Raisa, Marcel Journet. Seats cost from 100 to 800 lire each. News of the opera was flashed by telegraph to Mussolini...
...Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy: " From King Hussein of the Hedjas, I received a pair of magnificent Arabian horses. Despatches reported their arrival at Naples, said that my master-of-horse had journeyed to fetch them and that I, 'a consistent equestrian,' was pleased." Albert B. Fall, ex-Secretary of the Interior: " At Santa Monica, Calif., one Mrs. Katherine Petty was arrested, charged with carrying concealed weapons. Letters and telegrams found in her apartment and signed with my name, established her identity as my sister." Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon: " At the weekly...
...MUSSOLINI-Edited by Parong du Son Severino-Dutton ($3.50). Baron di San Severino has, according to his preface, selected, translated! and edited the speeches of Benito Mussolini, as delivered between November, 1914, and August, 1923. The impression that the reader will receive is of a man whose salient characteristics are domination, simplicity, directness, courage. The speeches, per se, are not of general interest, but for anyone interested! in Mussolini, they are decidedly worth reading. Baron di San Severino has done an excellent piece of work, but he has not done it impartially...