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Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, 25, with his regiment during maneuvers in the Piedmont Alps; heard a little girl had been bitten by a viper. He drove to the spot with a doctor, rushed the girl to Turin for further treatment. Villagers, learning his identity, made festival, wore Sunday clothes the rest of the week...
...steel and automobile manufacturers of Turin and Milan were among the earliest and most enthusiastic backers of Fascism. Last week the Fascist Party, grown great under Benito Mussolini, was able to do a return favor for the manufacturers, and at the same time carry on its campaign to build up Italy's commercial power...
...Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot, Girl of the Golden West, Manon Lescaut, Otello, Norma, Gioconda, Boris. Conductors are Bruno Walter, Robert Heger, Vincenzo Bellezza. Chaliapin heads the singers. The Paris music season, at its height from now through June, includes a series of performances at the Champs-Elysees Theatre by the Turin Opera Company, conducted by Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan. Germany's offerings are endless. In Berlin, beginning May 19, operatic activities include Wagner, Strauss and Mozart cycles, festival concerts under the direction of Conductors Furtwaengler, Kleiber, Klemperer, Walter; guest appearances of the Scala Opera of Milan under the direction...
...Duce has restored a mite of earthly authority to Il Papa (TIME, Feb. 18), and last week purring cinema machines proved how mountainous is the Pontiff's gratitude to the Dictator. Especially vivid and stirring were the footages showing Cardinal La Fontaine, Patriarch of Venice; Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin; and Cardinal Mam, Archbishop of Pisa, all of whom proceeded directly from the cele- bration of High Mass to vote at the head of their clergy. Photographs of popular Cardinals in the act of dropping their sealed ballots into the voting urn were displayed in all Italian illustrated reviews...
...less innovation is at Turin where, on the roof of the Fiat factories, an automobile race course has been built...