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...next stop before closing in San Francisco in February's third week. Conspicuously absent were the usual large number of foreign cars, Minerva and Isotta Fraschini being the only importations. Isotta bodies are made by famed Castagna of Milan. President of the U. S. Isotta sales company is Ugo V. D'An-nunzio, son of Italy's Poet-Soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio. Short, plump, light-com-plexioned, modest, 43, Son D'Annunzio came to the U. S. in 1917 to supervise the manufacture of Caproni bombing planes at Fisher Body plant. He returns to Italy...
...Married. Ugo Zacchini, 31, "the human cannon ball," who is shot from a cannon daily in Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus; to Elizabeth Walker, of Berlin; Bruno Zacchini. 29. who fires the cannon; to Gertrude Reigel, of Berlin; in a double wedding; at Sarasota...
...elephant, who has gained exactly one ton since last seen by his adoring public. This year there are many new acts, not the least astounding of which is that in which a man is shot from a cannon into a net more than 200 ft. away. He is Ugo Zacchini. He and his brother served in the Italian artillery during the War. They wondered then whether a man could be hurled as a projectile. There was no time to find out. Back on their farm in north ern Italy after the Armistice, they experimented with six-ton cannon...
...Players. The original Flonzaley players were Adolfo Betti and Alfred Pochon, violin player; Iwan d'Archambeau, 'cellist; Ugo Ara, violinist. The first three are in the Quartet today but Ara left to join the Italian army in 1917. Ill health prevented his return and Louis Bailly, now of the Curtis Institute, succeeded him until 1924. Then Felicien d'Archambeau, brother of Cellist Iwan, played for a season and since then Nicholas Moldavan. The Quartet now stands with Betti, an Italian; Pochon, a Swiss; d'Archambeau, a Belgian; Moldavan, a Russian. Yet so dominated are they...
Little known is the fact that Poet-Flyer Gabriel d'Annunzio's son, Captain Ugo V. d'Annunzio, has been in the U. S. for several years representing the Isotta-Fraschini Motors, Inc. Last week Captain d'Annunzio became a director of the American Aeronautical Corp., newly organized to manufacture Italian Savoia seaplanes and flying boats in this country...