DAMP AND IL DUCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 69, 19 September 1938, Page 4

DAMP AND IL DUCE

The Duce's desire to revive the splendours of Imperial Rome has received a check, says the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post." He had great plans for the latest open-air opera theatre in Home. This is in the remains of the Baths of Caracalia, the Roman Emperor who had a passion for magnificent buildings. No finer setting could have been devised for the auditorium, which seats 20,000 spectators—the Romans call it "il taatro delle I ventimila." The,best Italian artists! were engaged for the season. Signor. Gigli was one who was given an attractive contract. Now he has had to j appeal to the Duce to modify it considerably, and the Duce has had to agree. Gigli found that the humid atmosphere of the theatre was bad for his voice. ' j The American women' 3 monthly magazine, "Women's Home Companion," published in New York, has been banned in Germany. Cardiff holds the record among British cities for large families. There are six couples with twenty or more children, and more than twenty with between fifteen and twenty.