Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crown Prince Umberto arrived in Rome from a three-months' visit to South America. It was said that the young Prince would travel a good deal in the future...
Other appointments made: M. de Fleuriau, Minister to Peking, to be Ambassador to Great Britain in place of Comte de Saint Aulaire; Senator Réné Besnard to be Ambassador to Italy, displacing M. Barriére, who for 27 years has represented France at Rome; M. Peretti della Rocca, Director of Political and Commercial Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Ambassador to Spain in room of M. de Fontenay; Comte Charles de Chambrun, Director of Press Service at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Minister at Athens; Deputy Jean Hennessy, ardent supporter of the League of Nations...
...corner of Rome which has been left behind by the centuries is the church of St. John Lateran. Dozens of churches can lay claim to greater beauty and adornment, but this church, said the Pope in a letter last week, is "the mother and head of all the churches of the city and of the world...
...Rome in the springtime. Tito Beppi of the Teatro Paradiso seeks the aid of the specialist Gambella, to cure the fits of terrible anguish and tears that torment him. In the waiting room he meets Luigi Ravelli, the roisterer and squire of dames, who has come to be treated, not for tears, but uncontrollable and ghastly laughter. Sorrowfully Tito tells his story to Gambella and is advised to go and see "Flik", the mountebank of the Paradiso, and laugh again. "But I am Flik!" Attracted by the strange opposites of their disease, Flik and Ravelli are becoming friendly, when Simonetta...
...second act, laid in Simonetta's dressing room, the play rises to its height. Grown up in the theatre, trained by Tito, the little singer has become the darling of Rome, sharing the applause with the great clown himself. Happy once more, proud of her success, Tito feels that at last his love can be declared. But on that vacation ramble things have happened and Simonetta's eyes and heart are now another's. When Tito sees the string of pearls that Luigi has sent, his tortured anger in all its horror returns and, cursing the moment when they...