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...performance of Beatrix Thomson, quaint, perhaps too pretty, but subtly pigeontoed. It is said that all Broadway was combed to find an ingenue who knew what a constant nymph was, without success. Miss Thomson, daughter of a British army colonel, is the wife of Actor Claude Rains, who plays Roberto the hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...everyone knows, the great schism of Fascismo concerns the efforts of former Secretary-General of the Fascist Party Roberto Farinacci to avenge his displacement from that post through the influence of Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni, "the Vatican's softspeaker." (TIME, July 12 et ante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Dictator's Birthday | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...aristocratic, bland. His voice has a low vibrant timbre, which engenders fear. It is well known that he attends Mass every morning before seeking his Ministry. Perhaps less known is the fact that in the councils of Fascismo he speaks- not always softly-for the Vatican. At his insistance Roberto Farinacci, "the Scourge of Fascismo," long, right-hand terrorist to Mussolini, was replaced as Secretary-General of the Fascist Party (TiME, Apr. 12), by the comparatively mild and steady-going Augusto Turati. The latter, sharply prodded by Fed-erzoni, instituted an investigation of Farinacci's chief fiscal backers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Sanguinary Omens | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...Parma. They were jailed last week on sealed charges. Allegedly the President and the Professor had misused their influence as prominent Fascists to abstract quietly from the recently bankrupt Bank of Parma many a golden lira. The detention of these particular gentlemen was notable. All are intimates of Roberto Farinacci, recently deposed as Secretary General of the Fascist party, because of his arbitrary and ruthless extermination not only of the foes of Fascismo but of his personal enemies as well. That the new Fascist Secretary General, Auguste Turati (TIME, April 18), ordered the arrest of these Fascist oligarchs, was touted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fascist Thieves | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...Basel, Switzerland, that Mussolin's intestinal complaint now makes it necessary for him to subsist chiefly on milk and rice, and he seeks forgetfulness from sharp internal pains by playing on the violin when he cannot sleep. At Lugano, Switzerland, another journalist just returned from Italy declared that Roberto Farinacci, who recently resigned (TIME, April 12), as Secretary General of the Fascist Party, has definitely turned against Premier Mussolini and is raising an anti-Fascist rebellion in the northeastern provinces of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Rome's Birthday | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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