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There were roses for José as she stepped off the train in Rome-roses from the Dictator. Excellency Mussolini later kissed Mile Laval's hand, but first he kissed Excellency Laval on both cheeks. Outside the station a mob of Romans, accustomed for years to shout "Abbasso la...
Lasting monuments to the Dictator's greatness are trim, healthful, brand new homes now occupied by 60,000 War veterans on the former Pontine Marshes. So persistent was local belief that it was Death to live on these once malarial lands, that II Duce had to recruit his colonists...
Greece. The city of Corinth, 1½ miles from the Gulf of Corinth, was a flourishing trade centre as early as the 6th Century B. C. It suffered spoliation at the hands of the Romans, recovered prosperity when Julius Caesar re-peopled it with Italian freedmen. Since 1896 the American School...
If Cleopatra is a gauge, the Romans were still somewhat "nouveau riche." They were also provincial, priggish as regards the women, crude as regards the men. On the other hand the Egyptians portrayed here are scarcely subtle. The humor in "Cleopatra" is sometimes excellent, but one never knows whether it...
When Cecil DeMille decided to address himself to Cleopatra, the first thing he ordered was a French military survey of Egypt in 16 volumes. That work set the style for the production. When he learned that Romans cooled their banquet wines in snow, he refused to have marble dust, the...