MUSSOLINI FILM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

MUSSOLINI FILM.

HOLLYWOOD AUTOBIOGRAPHY

FIRST OF ITS KIND,

"Mussolini Speaks," the life story of Benito Mussolini, Italy's great man of the hour, has been produced by a Hollywood organisation. With its early release Columbia introduces an innovation, for never before has one of the leading figures in world affairs enacted his life's role on celluloid. Here, for the first time, is the true scope and power of the camera and microphone so strikingly revealed. The film was made in Italy with explanatory dialogue supplied by Lowell Thomas, famous explorer and screen speaker. "Mussolini Speaks" presents an exclusive and authentic film auto-

biography of the Italian Dictator with the actual events in his career serving as the incidents of the story.

The camera first introduces Mussolini's •birthplace, carries us through his valiant war career; the memorable march on Rome; the industrialisation and modernisation of Italy and its South African colonics; the rehabilitation of Mt. Volture in 40 days following a disastrous earthquake and the historic gathering of Fascists from all Italy at Naples to celebrate the anniversary of Mussolini's ascension to the Dictatorship of Italy. "Mussolini Speaks" presents, in addition to II Duce, such famous people as King Emanuel and Queen Elena of Italy, Crown Prince Humbert of the House of Savoy, Hk Holiness Pius XI., Pontiff of the Church of Rome, King Boris of Bulgaria, Princess Giovanna of Italy, King Albert and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium, Signora Mussolini, his eldest daughter Edda and his two sons, Secretary of State Stimson, Minister of Airways Balboa and Signor Dino Grandi, ex-member of Mussolini's Cabinet, Ambassador to London and confrere of the powerful ruler.