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Fire destroyed the Central Post Office in Rome, causing damage to the extent of more than 5,000,000 lire. Communications with northern Italy, France and England were interrupted for many hours. Five hundred telegraph instruments were destroyed, but there were no casualties...
...terms of pay and promotion have a communistic clause. Officers and soldiers will receive the same rates of pay as for corresponding ranks in the Army; but all ranks will receive 900 lire a month on active service, the Government holding that " the life of a soldier is of the same value as the life of an officer...
...first Italian Olympic Games will be held at Rome in April, 1922; entries close March 31, and should be accompanied by a fee of two lire for individual contests and five lire for collective contests. Competition is invited from American Colleges and Universities for the International football match (one team for each nation), rowing (skiff and four-oar), foot races (100 metres, 800 metres, 5000 metres), relay race of 1600 metres. One team of three competitors will be admitted to each event from each nation...
...Cercle is most fortunate in its having discovered such remarkable dramatic ability and mastery of French among the girls of Boston Society. Those who saw "Lire" in 1918 will remember how well Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird Jr. executed the leading feminine role. This year she has the title role in "Fanny Lear". Her acting is very impressive--if anything a little too much so. In some spots especially in her long dialogue with Frondeville in the third act her desire for effect makes the scene drag a little...
...supported him and his followers if not the Italian people? Every day contributions have been pouring into Flume not only from all the Saturnian states, but also from all parts of the western hemisphere. For example, "II Progresso Italo-Americano" through popular subscriptions has raised about $1,000,000 lire "Pro D'Annunzio e Flume." The Italians of South America have done ever better, and please understand that the contributions have by no means ended...