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Catholic Financing. Bonds of the $5,000,000 Bavarian diocesan loan were offered the U. S. public last week. These bonds are against the General Union of the Eight Bavarian Dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church. Net proceeds of the sale will be loaned as needed to the Bavarian dioceses against first mortgages on Church property or against approved collateral of equal value. This financing is considered an innovation in Catholic Church affairs...
...Bosis, a member of the faculty of the University of Rome and Royal Commissioner of the Modern Italian Art Exhibit at present being shown in America, has been closely associated with artistic activities in Italy, and his lecture tonight will deal largely with recent excavations of ancient Roman ruins, and with the revival of old forms of art, a work which has been progressing rapidly in Italy during the past few years...
country, the ruins which up to that time had been practically untouched, were investigated and, at the instigation of Count Voipi, digging was begun. At present a fairly large amount of Leptis Magna has been recovered from the sands and fine examples of Roman architecture, many of them rivaling the temples and baths of ancient Rome itself, have been found in a remarkable state of Preservation...
...Bosis has also been closely associated with the performances of classical Greek tragedies, which of late years have been performed in the ancient Roman amphitheater on the Palatine. These performances, which have been open to the public, have been attended by large audiences, often numbering as many as 60,000, and have attracted much attention in professional as well as amateur circles...
...Bosis is a student of Roman Archaeology and the Greek theatre. He has also translated into Italian verse the Greek tragedies, "Oedipus Antigone," and also Shakespeare's "Hamlet...