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...Bridal Veils and Mrs. Wurts. To deck the small Church of St. Joseph for the wedding huge tapestries were borrowed from the City of Rome and quantities of flowers brought from the vast gardens of Il Duce's residence just down the street, the Villa Torlonia, where he has lived as the guest of aristocratic Prince Giovanni Torlonia since...
Born to Edda Mussolini, 17, Vittorio Mussolini, 11, Bruno Mussolini, 8, a brother-Romano Mussolini. Rushed to the side of his wife, Donna Rachele Mussolini, at the Villa Torlonia at Carpena, Forli, Premier Benito Mussolini. Said he to reporters, wagging a warning forefinger: "Remember that journalistically my wife and family do not exist!" But it was "arranged" that the new baby received due publicity. Before he was many hours old, it had leaked out through indiscretions, "intentional or otherwise," that the baby's features are "exactly like those of his illustrious father," which was rightfully considered an impossible piece...
Signor Benito Mussolini resides in bachelor estate at the sumptuous Villa Torlonia, Rome, Donna Rachele Mussolini and their small sons, Bruno and Vittorio, spend the winter at an apartment in Milan, and the summer at a little villa near Forli in the Umbrian mountains. Edda Mussolini, their daughter, attends boarding school in Florence. Thus the Mussolinis dwell apart, except on holidays such as Christmas...
...night Signor Mussolini lies between silken sheets in a huge, carved bed at the Villa Torlonia. A massive prie dieu stands at his bedside. A domed and gilded ceiling canopies above. From the sumptuous milieu he rose up refreshed one morning last week and spoke biting words to French feminist Vahdah Jeanne Bordeaux, who interviewed him after breakfast on the topic "Women...
...third time in a twelvemonth Death darted a sable claw last week at Benito Mussolini. He had just returned to Rome from attending military maneuvers in Umbria with King Vittorio Emanuele. Having spent the night at his sumptuous suburban residence, a villa lent by Count Torlonia, Signor Mussolini breakfasted frugally, set off for his office...