Word: romagna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notwithstanding his reticence, however, there was quite a celebration for Signor Mussolini. He came down from his mountain retreat at Rocca della Caminate in Romagna, to Predappio, his birthplace in the valley below, where 10,000 peasants from all parts of Italy greeted him with gifts of wine, fruit, spaghetti, cheese, olive oil. He reviewed them, told them his spirit was "unchangeably rural." They in turn filed past the tomb of Alessandro and Rosa Maltoni Mussolini, Il Duce's parents, visited the house where Benito Mussolini was born and the blacksmith shop where his father worked...
...around the after effects of a miscarriage of justice in a situation paralleling the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Winterset starts with a quick outline of a 1920 payroll robbery. Three gangsters - Trock Estrella (Eduardo Ciannelli), Shadow (Stanley Ridges), and Garth Esdras (Paul Guilfoyle) - steal a car that belongs to Bartolomeo Romagna. After they have murdered the paymaster, they abandon the car. Romagna, partly because he is a radical, is convicted of the crime. His small son is standing on the hill above the prison the night he dies in the electric chair. Obsessed by the desire to clear his father...
Circumstances complicate his mission. One is that when he meets Margo in the square outside her house, they fall in love with each other. The others are that both Judge Gaunt (Edward Ellis), who sentenced Romagna, and Trock Estrella, just out of prison and dying of consumption, have also seen newspaper stories which suggest the advisability of reopening the case. All three-the killer, the avenger and the blundering judge-arrive at the Esdras basement tenement the same night...
Based obviously, if not candidly, upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the play has an absorbing story to tell. Mio Romagna's father has been executed for a murder which he did not commit. He was considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict him of a crime which was actually performed by a gangster. The injustice which society foisted upon the father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith...
...fateful airplanes fascinated Europe last week. One soared up from Rome with Benito Mussolini at the controls and fought its storm-tossed way over the Apennines. Setting the trimotored ship down at last near Dovia di Predappio, his birthplace in the Romagna, Il Duce tossed his flying helmet to a mechanic, drove off to concentrate at his country home on what moves he will make this week on Europe's chessboard when he opens the Stresa Conference...