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“ASSIGNMENT IN BRITTANY”
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ROME.
"USSOLINI. Is not forget- ten in Italy-hot by а long way.
meelings are held in private houses,
With her, she's got her youngest
You hear his name all the generally, those of the wealthy or Bon, Romano, who's just become a time:
of people who prospered particularly under Mussolini, and who haven't When the noise of tooting done so well since his regime gnd- horns and screaming traffic ed.
'you'll becomes unbearable, hear people remark that Mus- golini hatt forbidden the ex- cessive use of car horns.
When litter lies in the gut ter, shopkeepers shrug their shoulders and say, "Mussolini always kept the city clean."
The term Fascist in Italy.to- day is an insult-strange in a country where 90 percent of the population were inscribed Fascists. But the dislike Fascism is not linked with the memory of Il Duce.
of
As far as Italians are con- cerned, Mussolini made only one big mistake, and that was plunging his country into war. To cap the mistake, it was losing wur.
Did A Lot MUSSOLINI did a
Italy, and the
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lot for citizens
The revival is encouraged by the hundreds of Foscisis fact that have been put back in their former positions, many of them most re- sponsible.
Édda Ciano
spearheads of the ONE of the
Fascists' revival is Edda Ciano, Mussolini's daughter.
About 40, good-looking in a course way, hard as flint, and em bittered by the murder of her father and the execution of her husband, Count Ciano, Edda is staging minor comeback, in the salons of Home.
a
She'd been
some confined for time at Ischia, but was released re- cently when the Government found it had nothing concrete against her. Rome, She moved quickly back to took her place in society, and how divides her time between Rome and Capri.
She is an active member of the body Movimento Sociale Italino, a which has Fascist ideals, in the Mus- sollal pattern.
Edda is a frequent speaker in the salons of Rome, especially to women, for whom she's got sentimental and of the cities and the pea political significance, as well as be- sants in the folds realise ing regarded as a martyr. thia. He. brought back One of her most successful ap- order to the country, which was pearances was in one of the largest in a state of hopeless disorder, villas in Rome, where a large crowd Ho was stern with a people who of supporters had gathered to wel- As sho walked in there need sternness. He was fana- were cheers and cries of "Viva tically proud of everything Duce!" to which Edda replied with
saw possibi- bows and contented smiles.
Italian and he
come her.
lities of restoring the glory that she didn't make any speeches- hor system is to talk to small groups, once was Rome's.
attempt to sway not
Large to gatherings.
im-
He was bombastic, arrogant, hot-hoaded, made many a rash decision. He murdered, prisoned or alienated some of the finest liberals of Europe. He deceived his people about wage their preparedness to successful war.
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chartered accountant, and is looking for a job, and her youngest daughter, Anna Maria, who's content to stay and look after her mother."
Bruno, the airman son, who rejoiced at the killing
of the natives, was himself Abyssinian killed in an aircraft accident during the war.
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Vittorio is 1lving in Argentina-a rother troubled life, apparently, because many people down there re sent his presence. He's apparently determined to stay there and enter business.
So the politics of the Mussolint family are all concentrated in Edda, a woman whom most Romans con- sider capable, but possessing lots of limitations.
CHAPMAN
B
ART ON THE SUPER-TAX
By Charles Graves
Loudon, May 5. The tubes of paint vary from 78. Y last night more than 10,000 dd for a tube of vermilion to 1k. people had paid their one- ad, for a tubs of ochre. Every week and-sixpences to visit the he uses at least one large túbe of Royal Academy. That is quite apart flake white, cosung 3s. id. from all those who were invited to
to
Against this, small stretchers and the private view, Thirteen thousand
on the other had bought catalogues priced 18., canvases cost £2; making a combined total of £1850, hard, he is charged as much as £25
Academy As the Royal
is the to reline a 10ft canvas In England The best brushes made in Eng- only picture gallery
all exported which does not charge. the usual land are nearly 334 por
cent, it cannot- claim hard currency countries. In Londen of they cost anything from 2s. to Os. £5100 for the £15,300 worth 245 pletures sold over the week each, if he can get them, and he
needs more than 100 of them end up to Monday night.
any given moment. It is said that Oswald Birley uses na many as 600. Nor do these brushes last long. They mouli and "die" very quick- that the ideal
af
ng-
But it a sim of the times that In three days the total sales pictures are greater than the
regate for the whole of the Royal Academy exhibition in any given ly
how
at
indeed, year in the 30s, with the exception bruches made of Russian hog bris- of 1930. The low record was tle, manufactured in Germany, ure £7150 in 1921.
no longer available.
As for the attendances, this But it is quito clear that in the week-end has broken all records case of a popular portrait painter since 1814 when statistics were first the chief overhead is super-tax. compiled.
The most expensive picture yet rold in a 600 guinea work by Rus- nell Flint. No one has yet paid 150 guinea for Dame, Laura Knight's "Sheep may safely graze" the most expensive picture this year.
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de Rome scholarship for en- ANDREW FREETH won the Prix This kept him graving in 1930. going until 1039 when he joined the Army. On demobilisation in August 1040 he set up business in London as on artist.
He made no attempt to become Ho in, in a fashionable painter. fact, a portrait-draughtsman, water- He spends colourist and etcher. about £200 a year on his materials, paper, frames, travelling, and sub- His studio scriptions to societies. tax. He was able to command a costs him £120 a year. So much obvious overheads. price of 1500 guineas for a full- for his more length portrait. Today he charges Against this, he teaches twice a only 100 guincas for
ulness. for
How does this affect the artist? There are many types-from the fashionable portrait painter, like Simon Elwes, to the promising newcomer, like Andrew Freeth.
Simon Elwes even before the wor
was paying £10,000 a year income-
for three-quarth, 800 week at the St. Martin's School of
Elwes because no so long ago he
length Art in Charing Cross-road, and the and 000 guineas for half-length. Central School of Art, for £7 78.
have a
admiration for
In the a week during 35 weeks he year. Owing to, PAYE he does not completely lost the use of his right by any means receive the
£257 hand. He taught himself to paint gross per annum. He has received, with his left hand, and in
and the however, a number of commissions opinion of connolescurs is now from
and magazines
publishers painting better than ever, Mind which, with private commissions, you, his portraits of General Cer- enabled him to earn £800 in his ten de Wart, VC, and Sir Reginald first year. Hoare took him 40 sittings spread over a year instead of 15 sittings when he was painting right-handed. I far as can be estimated, he will At the moment he is painting, ▷ probably earn something over eight different sitters.
£1000 from last August up to this Of his own art he is pleasantly coming August. If he continues to modest. Az a fazhionable painter, do only the kind of work which he he says: "My pictures have no in- wishes to do, his ultimate ceiling is trinsic value-only a market value."
afrobe
course,
O O
£2000 a
a year. If, on the other chooses the and if (always a big IF) UT what about overheads? Well, he succeeds in it, he might easily much his studio would be a major have to pay three times as charge except for the fact that he tax as his gross earnings today. cold his house and studio in Grove For some years Augustus Joha
Wood, for a St. John's Woo End-road,
was an etcher. But that is some figure to combined
present time ago. Will Freeth stick to his owners, who allowed him to lease guns and be
content with doing back the studio formerly Sir Wil- portrait drawings at 25 to .00 Tom Reid Dick's-for a compare guineas each, according to size and tively nominal sum.
the
man
11ls picture frames, made by Pynappel, descendant of the who made frames for Rembrandt, cost £250 for a 10ft. frame; £10 And for a frame 30in. by 40in.
£120 for a frame 40in. by 60in.
PINCHER
like
subject, or portrait etchings
this year's Royal The one in Academy? Or will he turn to more lucrative profession of
Being a married portrait painter? man with three children the swer is probably "Yes"
reportą progress
Dr. Walls pursues
a fly for
18 years
-THE RESULT: A
VICTORY TO TOUCH
ALL OUR LIVES
it.
the the
an.
So Walls set to work to improve Over the years he synthelised hundreds of complicated compounds, all slightly different from the original drug, Each was sent to Browning's laboratory for tests against germs.
one
came
Browning's reports were dls curaging, until
back In 1038 that told Walls something beyond his expectations.
It said simply: "Drug No. 897 is
against Trypanorama
That was the scientists' name for the tsetse-carried scourge of African farming.
not
~
AN eighteen-year fight against an.enemy little bigger than a house-fly has been won by a His victory
Large quantities of this drug were British chemist.
prepared and rushed to the fly-belts takes us a big stride towards
for trial, In 1943 veterinary lessening the world food famine.
officers reported for the first time THE ENEMY: The tsetse fly,
of
That cattle with tsetse disease the African
could Insect whose bloodsucking
bite across the maps
stretch the be cured by a single injection. Empire-builders still
Walls was brings a fatal wasting disease
to words: "Fly-belts-unusabla."
satisûed. With cattle, sheep, and horsCO,
An end to that barrier is now in the help of researchers from THE CHEMIST: Dr Leslie P sight. Dr Walls' discovery of a drug dustry he looked
for something Rest Of Family Walls, a 43-year-old Government
which can cure
animal diseases better. Scores of experiments led research scientist.
they called carried by the tsetse is the climax them to something 01 the disease-
Samples were THE main speech at this gather-
to a a story of achievement which Dimidium 1553. ny has for years began 18 years ago. Leslie Wells, sent to Uganda, Tanganyika, and announced. made vast Roman solicitor, who
Africa uninhabitable by This is a private meeting, to honour Central the name of Mussolini. We
animals.
And
without in a small laboratory at Teddington, must form
had been studying complex chemi- came in 1944; "Dimidium the fertile plains
beat thing yet discovered against the never forget that the name of Mus- mixed farming
cal with the equally complex have linked with the
to cultivation. lost been
African solini is forever history of Italy."
The danger is not so dearly with of phenanthridinium. He was struck tsetse
with its likeness to quinine and can use every ounce avaliable." human beings. With medical care other drugs known to be effective Bigger trials have since been com- While Edda careers round Rome
Ilve can
safely
where
pleted, and all confirm Its carly in the New Look, alpping marthist
tsoise warms. To clear the fly against diseases.
Dimidium manufactured Fascism is by no means dead in, and spreading propaganda, the rest from badly needed
Pasture the Curious to find out whether it success. Italy today. With some, it's an of Mussolini's family live in self-cattlers have for a long time des- too, was a gern-killer, he sent in Britain is on its way to supy
creed. With outspoken
many
troyed bush where it lurks, sample to Professor Carl Browning, all the African farmers who need it. others, it's a reviving corpse-some- thing which was thought to be dead, but which has moved, and is show ing signs of sitting up.
But he had a kind of opera box strength which, Italians ad- mirc.
This revival of Fascism is very much under the lap at present. Most
NANCY Easy Does It
BOY--- DIS. WARM WEATHER MAKES YA LAZY
ing was made by a well-known cats of Western and began old scientist then working. Keny waited for the results. They
chosen obscurity.
the
menace.
Is the
farmers
His widow, Donna Rachel, Ilves j alanghtered game on which it feeds, Glasgow University bacteriology bigger than a house fly is in sight.
the life of a quiet housewife in Forli, ai Romagna. She never linked Ufe in Rome, always preferred to do ber own shopping and cooking.
MY DOG SEEMS
TO HAVE SPRING FEVER,
·TOO
•EANG BUSHPALLEMA
The defeat of an enemy to air with for testa.
WAS The result
encouraging. It is the kind of victory which in and sprayed it from the
not spectacular. poison.
The the long in news that touches all our But always the By
came back, though Always the cattle died. And chemical had some antiseptic power. lives..
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