Word: principessa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schipa's Show. In Rome last week opened a musical comedy called Principessa Liana, with a love plot about a princess and a troubadour. The author-composer: Tenor Tito Schipa of the Chicago Opera Company. Success: immediate...
...sheep herder is Pietro Cardinal Gasparri. This priest of strong and massive build can charm a Principessa with his wit, astonish a jurist by his profundity in canon law (which he has codi-fied), or paralyze a nervous opponent by the piercing glance of his large eyes, peering from beneath abnormally heavy, Mephistophelian eyebrows (see cut). Cardinal Gasparri has been Papal Secretary of State for 14 years, twice the length of the tenure of any Prime Minister in Europe. Last week he rose to the grand climax of his career by signing a document which liberates Pope Pius XI from...