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Waiting at sheltered Riccione on the Adriatic seaside were Donna Rachele Mussolini and 22-month-old Babe Romano, indisputably Il Duce's favorite son, often called by him "the first child of my second series." Waiting also was a spandy new speedboat. So far as observers could see, the birthday celebration proper was in two parts: 1) Donna Rachele sat placidly on the beach; 2) Dictator Benito and Babe Romano went out morning and afternoon in the speedboat, dashed thrillingly through spume-flecked waves...
...prima donna, he overhears a lusty scene in her boudoir. A clever playwright writes the scene into a play for her so it will seem she was only rehearsing...
Duel. For Prima Donna Sari Fedak, Molnar wrote Carnival. Result: she became a famed legitimate actress and his second wife. Molnar then wrote Heavenly and Earthly Love for a more beautiful woman, Lili Darvas, who, starring in it, became a famed actress also. Enraged, Actress Fedak responded by getting Melchior Lengyel, Hungary's second greatest playwright, to write a play with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured...
...door creaked open and there was the friendly face of Dame Nellie Melba. Taking Ponselle's cold hands between her warm ones, the grand old prima donna delivered a warning: "Now, my dear Rosa, don't expect Covent Garden to be like your Metropolitan. Above all, don't expect applause for your great aria, 'Casta Diva.' A London audience wouldn't clap the Angel Gabriel himself until the curtain was down and the proper time for applause had arrived...
...unnaturally Japanese editors thought their readers would be interested last week in hearing about Donna Rachele Mussolini, whose condition was announced almost simultaneously with that of the Empress. Potent mother of three sons and a daughter, Donna Mussolini last week donned an apron and sturdily dished out a hot luncheon to 70 workmen on her husband's "model farm" at Forli in the north of Italy. Males who find themselves in the south of Italy this summer should avoid being jeered at or reviled for failure to observe an old Sicilian custom...