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...fore again came that Fascist firebrand, Roberto Farinacci, onetime Secretary General of the Fascist Party and now editor of Regime Fascista and the monthly La Vita d'ltalia. He accused Badoglio of "frequenting salons, hunting preserves and groups which received favors from him, saying he did not favor the [Greek] undertaking." As to rising prices, Editor Farinacci demanded: "With things increasing at this rate, are wages and salaries to remain unaltered? ... Is there anyone who imagines that profiteers have disappeared while the mass of the people are submitting to limitation in their standard of living...
...make swing versions of popular classics is reached in the adaptation by Larry Clinton of Debussy's "Reverie." So perfect a fusion of so-called classic and modern elements has been made in this piece that as far as the fad is concerned, here is an apologia pro sua vita. The swing version of "Reverie" is superior to the original, because Debussy's composition was not in his best vein. "Reverie" dates from 1890, the year marking the transition from the composer's immature to more mature works. That year, which produced "Clair de Lune," probably among the better works...
...many writers owe as much to a house as does Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West, wife of Diplomatist-Biographer Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West grew up in an Elizabethan castle which contains 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courts, covers seven acres-an environment where, says Hugh Walpole, dukes meant no more to her than Scotland Yard men did to Edgar Wallace. To this background, tall, brunette Author Sackville-West, now 45, owes the subject matter for The Edwardians, a novel which (in the U. S. at least) made her literary reputation, also her semi-legendary fame as heroine of Virginia...
...Belgian trawler John. Owner Sopwith disapproves of U. S. food, so John is bringing enough British victuals (except fresh vegetables and bread) to last all summer. The two Endeavours, Viva and John are by no means the whole Sopwith Navy. Still in England are his old motor yacht Vita and his new motor yacht Philante, which will cross the Atlantic in June and on which Owner Sopwith will live this summer, using a 28-ft. runabout now being built by Gar Wood as a tender. Philante is "the most luxurious motor yacht afloat." She is 263 ft., 1.612 tons...
Calculating in his speculations, Colonel Bradley hesitates at no extravagance where his horses are concerned. When they die, marble headstones mark their graves in a well-kept cemetery. Their stables are of Colonial architecture and stalls are fitted with Vita-Glass. Some of the Colonel's equine innovations, however, have been less successful than others. When he heard about streamlining and wind-resistance, he experimented with little hoods to be strapped on his horses' heads. More disastrous was his notion, abetted by an Akron (Ohio) oculist, that horses with defective vision would run better if equipped with glasses...