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...foreign ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Into the White House Blue Room where he stood stiffly waiting there marched promptly at 2:15 p. m. the State Department's Warren Delano Robbins and a dark-skinned, bright-eyed little man in a gold-embroidered green uniform. He was Augusto Rosso, Italy's new Ambassador...
...three bowed. Declaimed Signer Rosso: "Both our countries are at present highly interested in helping to solve two outstanding international problems: disarmament and the world economic and financial reconstruction. We are fully aware of ... difficulties . . . but we firmly believe that ... it will be possible to solve them in a satisfactory manner...
...Ancona, Italy, firemen rushed to a burning house, found no water with which to extinguish the flames. Ancona's ingenious firemen attached their hose to a barrel of wine, put out the fire with vino rosso...
President Calvin Coolidge, Charles Evans Hughes, Will H. Hays and Mrs. Edward L. Doheny are among sitters who have sat for portraits to Howard Chandler Christy, deft and prolific creator of girl head covers for magazines. Last week Artist & Mrs. Christy reached Manhattan on the Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times...
...Stairs. A melancholy play by Rosso di San Secondo, Italian dramatist, does not impress. Reared on the rueful abstraction that revenge reaps no pleasure for the revenger, it seems lifeless. The stairs of the title ramble upward through a tenement house. The gossip and the touseled details of life finally converge in the room where lives a woman. No prostitute, she turns out to be the deserted wife of the cruel landlord. The cast is adequate...