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...Andreina, and imagines that because she has become his mistress she loves him too. His faith is soon sorely tried. Stefano, the man who first seduced Andreina when she was 14, appears again, turns out to be Maria Luisa's brother. Stefano is now a cripple and nearly penniless; his rich sister will have nothing to do with him. Andreina hates Stefano, but to plague Pietro she ousts him, takes the cripple again as her lover. Hatred of everyone and everything becomes more & more her guiding passion. By Roman law, crippled Brother Stefano, not Husband Matteo, stands to inherit...
...Angeles, oldtime Cinemactress Theo Carew, onetime leading lady for the late John Drew, pioneer woman aviator, penniless relict of the Marquis di Marcone, was caught stealing $2 worth of groceries...
...village girl is caught in the act of love, her mother spends everything they have on a feast for the local big men, hoping that they will then commute her daughter's sentence from death to banishment. They do; the daughter goes off to starve while her penniless mother stays home...
...Mussolini family last week to fill most of his column ("On the Corso")* in somewhat this wise: Middle-aisling it on Feb. 6 are the Big Patoot's Manchild No. i, Vittorio, 21, who sports a fine young spinach, and his pretty poopsy, Signorina Orsola Buvoli of Milan, penniless and proud of it. Rome's swellegant hotel will feed the churchgoers out of the Big Patoot's private cache of frog-skins. . . . Dream pigeon of the week is Silvia di Rosa. The date: Feb. 8. Was Rome caught with its toga down by the sudden announcement last...
Washington Henry Ochsner, a Swiss-born oil geologist, died in 1927 at 47 in a Portland, Ore. hotel, alone and virtually penniless. Behind he left a widow, two former wives, three children, a host of disgruntled backers and oil royalty rights on 2,538 gullied, sun-scorched acres in California's Kettleman hills. The year after Ochsner died, pay sands were struck in those hills, opening up one of the country's major oil pools. From the Ochsner acres nearly $1,000,000 of royalties have already accumulated, and estimates of the eventual total run as high...