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...family is like that. We are given freedom to live, with no interference from anyone," the Premier's eldest son, Vittorio, 21, explained in San Francisco last week. There his partner, Hal Roach, in the new Roach and Mussolini cinema producing firm R.A.M. (TIME, Oct. 4), was sued last week for $30,000 by Dr. Renato Senise, the Italian who originally thought up the idea and brought Roach to Rome. In Hollywood, Messrs. Roach and Mussolini had been more & more embarrassed as fewer & fewer people came to their parties and the "20-day" instruction period young Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sons & Bombers | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

With deputy sheriffs for Dr. Senise trying to attach Mr. Roach's bank account he gloomed: "I can't say if a picture will ever be made under my partnership with Mussolini, but the partnership has not been dissolved." By this time Son Vittorio was en route by sleeper-plane to Washington, obviously aware that a Fascist has about as much chance to succeed in Hollywood as a Zionist producer would enjoy in Mecca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sons & Bombers | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...there who told me I was doing the finest thing ever done in their estimation-tying up with Mussolini's son and taking the boy back to Hollywood. . . ." Thus Editor Maurice Kann of Manhattan's Motion Picture Daily recorded his version of what Hollywood's Hal Roach excitedly called up by transcontinental telephone to say last week, after both Jewish and Gentile cinema folk had criticized Producer Roach's partnership with Son Vittorio Mussolini (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini's Roach | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...certain liners entering New York harbor (TIME. Sept. 6). It stopped there last week, however, to let two moon-faced gentlemen climb down a gangplank to a Coast Guard cutter. The cutter snaked up the river to a Fire Department pier. Here the chubby passengers, Cinema Producer Hal Roach and Dictator's Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of alien squad members, policemen. State Department and Italian Embassy officials, and rushed cross town to the Ritz Tower Hotel, thus avoiding a noisy incident as the Rex warped into its regular pier. A thunderous loud speaker, operated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mussolini's Roach | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Vittorio Mussolini, 21, married and a veteran bomber of Ethiopian villages, has been excited about the cinema for over a year. But the original idea for this latest of Fascist corporations belonged to neither Vittorio Mussolini nor Hollywood Producer Hal Roach. It belonged to an earnest Italian, Dr. Renato Senise, nephew of the chief of Rome's secret police and son of an Academician. To Hollywood he went over a year ago fired with his pet idea, the production of full length cinema operas in Italy where tenors are as plentiful as olives. There he met Producer Hal Roach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mussolini's Roach | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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