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Honored. King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and his son Crown Prince Umberto: by Pope Pius XI: with the Supreme Order of Christ, highest decoration the Pope can bestow. The order was established as a pontifical decoration by Pope John XXII in 1319. King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto were the fifteenth and sixteenth recipients since Pope Pius IX revived it in 1878. Last recipient (1928) was Peru's onetime President Augusto B. Leguia whose son's name last week came in shame before the U. S. Senate...
...Italian Ambassador called at the hospital, went away mum. Recently all Belgium had been hearing stories (TIME, March 16) of how Belgian Princess Maria Jose had quarreled in Rome with her bridegroom, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Press-guessing began...
Soon "the mysterious man and woman" were "a certain Italian prince and an American movie actress, we are reliably informed." Next, it was certain that the man was Crown Prince Umberto. Actually he was a grey-haired Italian banker, Signor Nardi Beltrami. The woman soon became Cinemactress Jeannette MacDonald-actually she was the banker's mistress, one Signorina Lodigiani. When banker & mistress recovered sufficiently to slip away to parts unknown, journalistic rumor ran riot, especially in France. The story now was, is, that Jeannette MacDonald was injured not in an auto accident but by Crown Princess Maria Jose...
General Italo Balbo, whose famed triads leaped the Atlantic to Natal last January, was nearly drowned last week in the Bay of Naples when his seaplane struck a submerged buoy in taking off, and sank. Two months ago the general's adjutant, Col. Umberto Maddalena, and two flyers of the squadron were killed when a propeller snapped and tore through the cabin of their plane (TIME, March...
...next six weeks, during which time the treasure will be exhibited at Turin, 1,500,000 pilgrims are expected, including Their Majesties. Why this exhibition? "The occasion" said a spokesman for the Crown last week, "is the marriage last year of Crown Prince Umberto...