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When Signor Mussolini appeared on a balcony of the Palazzo Vecchio to speak he was announced to the Florentine populace by two heralds in red and white medieval costume who put long brass trumpets to their lips and blew a blast heard a halfmile away. Last week Il Duce even carried his blasting to Paris. For the Petit Parisien he wrote an article attacking by implication Statesman Briand's dearest hobby and pet scheme, his projected European Union or "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
...precious friendship or harshest hostility. . . . "Florentines! Have I changed in these eight years? Do you see any decrease in my natural pugnacity?" 'Like the lashing of the sea the roar of 100,000 voices rose from Fascist militia men packed and jammed into the great square before the Palazzo Vecchio, on a balcony of which Il Capo stood. -'No, No!" rumbled the ocean of voices, 'you are not changed! Viva Il Capo! VIVA IL CAPO!" Vibrant with exultation, overpowered as well he might be by the effect he had produced. Benito Mussolini shouted from the balcony with...
...social dragonesses in The Cabala, famed novel by Thornton Niven Wilder, is a rich, enigmatic fragment in the age-old mosaic of Roman society. Tremendously dim, tremendously "important," she lives in the via dei Funari; the twisted "Street of the Rope Makers," on a floor of the Palazzo Mattei. Two other floors are occupied respectively by Principe Lodovico Mattei, himself, and by fidgety but obsequious Don Guido Antici-Mattei, a relation who is probably poor but, like rich Mrs. Wurts, tremendously dim, tremendously important to the Wurts Cabala...
...Tomorrow evening Mrs. Hearst will be honor guest at dinner and an opera party given by Alexander Kirk, of the American Embassy. On Sunday Mrs. Hearst will be the guest of King Gustaf of Sweden at luncheon, afterward attending a dinner and reception at the Palazzo Colonna as the guest of the Prince and Princess Colonna...
...traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price $40,950. The museum (largest south...