Word: sicilia
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...more than half the way The Winter's Tale is harsh, high-busted melodrama. On flimsy grounds King Leontes of Sicilia (Henry Daniell) inflames his own imagination with insanely jealous suspicions of his Queen and Polixenes, King of Bohemia...
Henry Daniell (as Leontes, King of Sicilia), Florence Reed (as Pauline, wife to Antigonus), Jessie Royce Landis (who plays Hermione, wife to King Leontes), and others are experienced players and do a good job. But it is not enough to take "The Winter's Tale" out of a rather academic classification...
...worth of bonds, mostly Pennsylvania R. R., Illinois Central, Cities Service, Bethlehem Steel. It gave him three ranches in South America; $1,225,000 in a bank at Sao Paulo, Brazil; $1,000,000 in Swedish kronor, Danish kroner, Dutch guilders and Belgian francs in Banco di Sicilia's branch at Trieste and A. B. Svenska Handelsbanken's branch at Malmö, Sweden. He was said to have safe deposits in Zürich, Chicago ($450,000) and at Sumitomo Bank, Ltd. in San Francisco...
...closed in and sent 20 bullets crashing into his kicking, bleeding body till muscular reaction ceased. A block from the scene of the shooting the President's car stopped to let out two victims of the assassin's bullets: Police Commissioner Pizzia, shot in the stomach; and Carlos Maria Sicilia, employe in the Investigations Office. Police discovered that the dead assassin was one Gualterio Marinelli, 44, an Italian dental mechanic listed as a member of several anarchist societies...