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Next out of the motorcade stepped the morning-coated, silk-hatted bridegroom, deferentially escorting the Countess Costanzo Ciano, his mother. From the third car descended Donna Rachele Mussolini. At a reception the day before she had presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...
Bride Edda and her groom were received last week by small King Vittorio Emanuele and large Queen Elena of Italy (with bovine Donna Rachele Mussolini and taurine Signer Benito Mussolini present), at the Royal suburban Villa Savoia (to be given presents...
Stokowski has permitted himself to develop prima donna tendencies but the public at large continues to encourage them -perhaps because, like a shrewd prima donna, he has stayed picturesque: preserved his figure by exercise and a strict raw-vegetable diet, his fluffy golden hair by washing it every day himself. He is (with Boston's Koussevitzky a close second) the best-groomed conductor in the U. S., although it has often pleased him to shock fastidious gatherings by appearing in golf clothes. In public places it takes him an impressive length of time to remove his coat and arrange...
...Young told his fellow citizens that Politics is like a temperamental prima donna, rattle-brained and greedy, who dazzles and hoodwinks whole nations until the show is nearly bankrupt, then with tears and tantrums calls on humble Economics to save it, and when the show is saved begins to squander and to dazzle once more...
...Died. Donna Maria Sarto, 81, last surviving sister of the late Pope Pius X; in Rome. In spite of their poverty, she and her late sister adopted two war orphans, performed many an act of kindness for the city's poor. For burying her sister, she gave agnostic Prime Minister Mussolini her holy brother's skull cap. Later she received a small annuity from the Vatican...