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...Italian plot, the hero is an ancient and defunct Roman who has fallen out of the basket which was hoisting him to Heaven after his so-jurn in Purgatory; in the other he is a Russian from Revere,--Dimitri Trestara Gudgodka...
...Official Status. When Vatican ceremonies need a choir, the singers are recruited from without. These Roman singers are popularly known as the Sistine* Choir. They continue the traditions of the old official choir. Their leader, Don Antonio Rella, has an official title, " Perpetual Vice-Director of the Pontifical Chapel." The choir crosses the seas without the official sanction of Pope Pius XI, but apparently with his consent...
...Juvenal pictured the fall of the Roman Empire when he described the Roman woman as 'lewd, petulant, reeling ripe with wine.' The modern woman is going the same...
...Venetii," young Prince of Ancient Gaul, came to manhood just at the time of Caesar's conquest. His tribe crushed, his father killed, his sister driven to suicide, he was sold as a slave and sent to Rome. He was rescued from torture by Titus Barrus, young Roman aristocrat and Lieutenant of Caesar. A friendship as strange as it was deep grew up between them, its bonds so strong that it even forced Meromic to fight against his countrymen during the last campaign against Vercingetorix. But at last the claims of his people proved too strong...
...spots. As a whole it drags a bit and depends a little too much on mechanical tricks for its humor-but the highlights are high enough when they come, to ensure a pleasant evening for almost anyone. The three ages concerned are the Stone Age, the days of the Roman Empire, and the present; the theme: that love is the same no matter in what century you meet...