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Seeking means to ingratiate themselves with Benito Mussolini, certain zealous Italians have founded the Action Committee for the Universality of Rome. Their grandiose gospel amounts to identifying 20th Century Fascism prophetically with the ancient Pax Romano, and its glories. Frankly pleased, Orator Mussolini now often indulges in verbal orgies about the Universality of Rome, but as a practical, pragmatic ruler Premier Mus solini knows exactly where the U. of R. stops today, namely, at Italy's frontiers. With characteristic prudence, II Duce did not permit his Fascist Party to be represented in Montreux, Switzerland last week at the first...
...screaming tabloid made this charge last week but the sedate Osservatore Romano, personal newsorgan of His Holiness Pope Pius XI. Added the Church's mouthpiece with bitter irony: "It cannot be hoped that the political world will act against such monstrosities, because the political world acts only when crimes are connected with political objectives, such as the assassinations of Chancellor Dollfuss and King Alexander. In Spain the victims were only obscure priests...
...obituaries were taken mostly from Tellegen's confessions, Women Have Been Kind. Tellegen's wives were: 1) Countess Jeanne de Brockere; 2) Geraldine Farrar; 3) Isabelle Craven Dilworth (screen name: Nina Romano); 4) Actress Eve Casanova...
There were plenty of prizes, but, as suspected, the very carnal Czechoslovakian film Exstase, even though it so far surpassed every other film in popularity that the Vatican's Osservatore Romano was forced to publish biting editorials (TIME, Aug. 27), won none of them. Prize for the most entertaining film went to Frank Capra's It Happened One Night. Douglas Fairbanks' British-made Private Life of Don Juan was voted the best world première. For giving the largest presentation of films, the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America got a loving cup. Acclaimed...
...Vatican City last week persons who had seen Extase in Venice carried complaints which reached even the ear of Pope Pius XI at his summer retreat in the Alban Hills. Next day the Papal news-organ, L'Osservatore Romano, flayed the goings-on in Venice, deplored the failure of Little Women to prove as popular as Extase, thundered particular displeasure at the loud booing in Venice of a dull French film devoted to exhibiting the beauties of cathedrals...