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Last week the answer came from the other side of the Adriatic. In Rome, Naples, Padua; in Florence, Milan, Turin; in Bologna, Venice, Trieste and in many another city "Down with France!" and "Down with Jugoslavia!" resounded. In Rome 2,000 citizens of profound Fascist faith assembled at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and swore blind devotion to any command of their cherished leader, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
...Padua three Jugoslav students "asked for it" by loudly and arrogantly singing a Jugoslav anthem, to which, it was alleged, they somewhat foolishly added insults to Italy, Fascism, Mussolini, always a dangerous procedure in Italy these days. Only the prompt intervention of the police saved these foolhardy youths from a fate that would not have stopped short of cudgelings and castor...
...manuscript of the second play of Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde came to light, too, last week. The Duchess of Padua, written about 1883 for Mary Anderson (but never acted by her) lay for many years on a printer's shelf in Bloomsbury, London. The printer's son slid it into a nook in his library; forgot about it. Last year the printer's son happened to mention the manuscript to Mitchell Kennerley, President of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. Followed desperate excitement on the part of Mr. Kennerley; a desperate search by the printer...
...another case is a profusely illuminated diploma with which the University at Padua conferred the degree of Ph.D. upon Giacomo Pasquall on December 18, 1656. It contains a picture of the successful scholar together with a representation of his coat of arms, all surrounded by the most colorful decoration...
...gypsies, journeyed to Milan. His ticket was paid for by 600 U. S. gypsy families, who desired to see the old queen with a grandson and the young king with a wife. But in Milan, Italy, the women were not as his mother had said. "Go to Padua," a stranger advised him. But in Padua a plague had left the gypsy women with pocked cheeks. Too much child-bearing had broadened the gypsies of Cadiz. It was not until he went to Marseilles, on the advice of a knowing uncle, that he found his girl, the Princess Paras Kevi. Last...