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Event of the week in Rome was the awful squash of 6,000 royal and titled guests at the marriage of Spanish Alfonso XIII's third son Juan, heir-pretender to the Throne, in St. Mary's Basilica to his brunette Italian cousin, Princess Marie-Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily who sobbed convulsively with streaming eyes during the ceremony. Sympathetic witnesses were that unhappy couple, sad Belgian Princess Marie-Jose and her gay Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Once dashing Umberto was the hope of antiFascists, was said to have challenged Il Duce to a duel, never gave...
...during raids, and commerce in eunuchs, which is still flourishing," Baron Aloisi, Italian representative at Geneva, condemns (TIME, Sept. 16) the Ethiopians as a barbarous and uncivilized race-what about the vaunted civilization of the Italians, who, for profit and gain during the centuries before the accession of Leo XIII to the Papal Chair, in 1878, castrated 3,500 Italian boys annually? Many died from the horrible operation; but the castrati, who survived and whose voices acquired the proper and desired timbre, were trained to be sold as sopranos, not only for the choruses in theatres, but also, strange...
...forbade appearance of women in both places. Force of public opinion drove the castrati from the Italian stage about 1800. But, in the indignant words of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th Edition), "they remained the musical glory and moral shame of the papal choir till the accession of Pope Leo XIII." Last great castrato was Professor Alessandro Moreschi, who entered the papal choir in 1883 at the age of 25, remained 30 years...
...Cannes on the palmy Riviera last week duty called Edward of Wales to inspect the British destroyer H. M. S. Wishart, commanded by his cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten. Some years ago Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, thought the Prince was deliberately insulting him when H. R. H. turned up at a review of the Spanish fleet in civilian grey flannels and a floppy soft hat (TIME, May 16, 1927). Last week loyal British residents of Cannes and officers of the Wishart understood that nothing was amiss when Royal Edward arrived for the inspection wearing rope-soled sandals, grey linen...
...also must or may do pretty much everything else. In some dismay, Scientist Moscicki finds himself not only endowed by Article XII with the ordinary powers of a European president whose acts must be countersigned like those of a king by the appropriate minister, but further endowed by Article XIII with what the new Constitution calls "prerogatives," these requiring no countersignature. At his autocratic pleasure he can dissolve the Sejm and Senate and can dismiss the Premier, First President of the Supreme Court, President of the Supreme Chamber of Control, and the Commander-in-Chief and Inspector General of Poland...