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...Yugo-Slavia. Friction between Italy and Yugo-Slavia was generated, curiously enough, by the Zaniboni affair. At Trieste the Slavonian newspaper Edinost published accusations to the effect that the whole Zaniboni "plot" had been "framed" by Fascist leaders to embarrass the Opposition and serve as an excuse for further tyranny. Promptly Fascists attacked and severely damaged both the offices of Edinost and the Yugo-Slavian consulate at Trieste...
...fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze at them were told first the fantastic plot of his life, which was, after all, one of the strangest fairy stories he had anything to do with...
Mussolini has occupied all lodges with the military and thus forced double vengeance on those accused. He will not let matters rest there. The pretext for increased despotism is yesterday's announced plot. It comes so timely for Mussolini's purposes that doubt whether the plot existed is permissible...
...hero is a dashing dog than whom no one in Charleston can fight or love more fiercely. He is in charge of the rebel forces and becomes deeply implicated in a treason plot through his pretty wife's Tory family. In a last act, which is as complicated as a mystery melodrama, the true spy turns up and the British are confounded...
Laff That Off. Chicago enjoyed this entertainment moderately for some weeks before its Manhattan opening. On that latter occasion the votes were generally unfavorable. The plot brings the inevitable small town girl to New York, pictures her struggles and her adoption by three bachelors.^ Later she bursts forth as a movie star and marries her rescuer bachelor. The company is only mildly talented...