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...most valued of all, the legendary Ponte Vecchio (see cut). Built in 1345, its roofed street was a promenade for Dante, Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci; in modern times, jewelry shops have succeeded its Renaissance goldsmiths. Over the bridge runs a covered passageway connecting the Uffizi Gallery with the Pitti Palace Museum...
Died. Jessie Bond, 89, last but one of the original Savoyards,* player of numerous Gilbert & Sullivan roles (including Iolanthe, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance) ; in Worthing, England. She retired in 1896. Only surviving Savoyard: Durward Lely of Glasgow...
...This was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, and after the genial conference the two men went out on the balcony and waved to the multitude. Close about them stood valets in medieval costume. The two drove out to a formal luncheon, then to the Pitti Palace, where hangs the lusher art of the Renaissance-the good fleshy art of Titian, Raphael and Rubens, which Adolf Hitler prefers to delicate primitives. There, in an air of preciousness, the two were regaled with chamber music...
...Negro show like its Federal Theatre rival, The Hot Mikado kisses the Old Boys good-by at about the eighth bar of the first song, turns Titipu into a dance hall before latecomers are in their seats, makes Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo carry on like three little maids from reform school, and finishes Act I in an uproar when Katisha busts in, no hatchet-faced termagant, but an eye-rolling, hip-shaking, torch-singing Red Hot Mama...
...picture every schoolboy knows, the great Raphael's oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael...