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Married. Miss Loretta Hines, daughter of Edward Hines, Chicago lumber millionaire, to one Howell Howard of Dayton; in Chicago, at the Cathedral of the Holy Name. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra played the wedding march. Cardinal Munclelein officiated. Tito Schipa, famed tenor, sang. The Hines family had caused the interior of the Cathedral to be done over in red velvet, had filled in with flowers, had spent, it was reported, more than $100,000, The arrival and departure of 2,000 guests was facilitated by lines of policemen stationed to keep back a great multitude of idlers...
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...
...Simonetta comes and offers to be his wife, denying her love for Luigi. Tito knows better, and, after her departure, writes to tell her that she is free, and then in company with Flok, his partner, turns toward Monte Carlo for a holiday of gayety and dissipation...
...Conte Verde (Lloyd Sabaudo) ?Seymour L. Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; Tito Schipa, tenor of the Chicago Opera Company, bound for Italy where he will be decorated by Benito; James M. Beck, famed Solicitor General...