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Born. To Shelley Winters, 29, cinema "bad girl" (A Place in the Sun, The Great Gatsby), and Vittorio Gassman, 32, Italian actor of stage (Hamlet) and screen (Bitter Rice): their first child (his second), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Vittoria Gina. Weight...
Died. Francesco Saverio Nitti, 84, scholarly Italian elder statesman who was forced by Mussolini into a 20-year exile for his unflinching opposition to Fascism; of influenza; in Rome. The late Premier Vittorio Orlando's World War I Finance Minister, roly-poly Nitti was a Premier himself, in 1919-20. During Mussolini's time he found haven in Paris, returned home in 1945 to help guide Italy's political and economic rebirth, thereafter served in Parliament as an energetic liberal...
Cincinnati last week showed the U.S. how to put on a new opera in English for operatic pin money. With a budget of $9,000 (mostly for sets, etc.) and a cast of home-town talent, townsmen rolled up their sleeves and mounted a three-acter by U.S. Composer Vittorio Giannini, based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...
Even the press enjoyed itself. Wrote Critic Henry S. Humphreys in the Times-Star: "There has been a jinx on operas based on Shakespeare's plays. With the possible exception of Otello, not one of them has held the stage. I confidently predict that Vittorio Giannini's The Taming of the Shrew . . . will break the Shakespeare jinx...
...Died. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 92, onetime (1917-19) Italian Premier and last of the "Big Four," who (with Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau) drafted the World War I peace treaty; in Rome (see FOREIGN NEWS...