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...nearer to a bullion treasure of $5,000,000 sunk off the west coast of France in the strong room of the foundered British liner Egypt (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930 et seq.). Last week with the treasure almost grasped, the Italian diver ship Artiglio II ran out of wine & spaghetti, promptly put back to the harbor of Brest. There, while she took on cases of spaghetti and 600 litres of the scorching red wine that Italian seamen like, her divers talked, showed a splendid shilling...
CITY LIGHTS-Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his lability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants, etc. etc. TABU-Fred Murnau's ideas about photographic story telling make this the best of the South Sea Island pictures-about a pearl diver and his girl. THE FRONT PAGE-Continuous crisis in a criminal courts press room, brilliantly written and acted...
CITY LIGHTS-Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his ability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants...
Your Jan. 12 issue reported a statement by Filippo Tomaso Marinetti, citizen of Italy and disciple of Fascism, inveighing against spaghetti and other wheat paste products as inducing "torpor and pessimism." Signer Marinetti proposed to reduce the consumption of macaroni, spaghetti and kindred foods whose popularity now necessitates the importation of considerable quantities of wheat, as well as the finished product, chiefly from America. His plan involved the substitution of synthetic foods, on the basis that macaroni products are not "sufficiently dynamic" for hardy patriots...
This unwarranted condemnation of macaroni products was obviously inspired by political expediency-the desire to utilize Italy's rice surplus in place of American-grown durum wheat and American-made macaroni. Nevertheless, it tends to create a mistaken idea of the dietetic value of wheat paste foods. Macaroni, spaghetti and egg noodles, the three dominant members of the family, have long been known for their nourishing, tissue-building qualities. Significantly, they are grouped in the co-operative advertising of the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association as "The Energy Trio...