"I request your Excellency to proceed to Pittsburgh in order to pay the homage of the Italian Government to the great actress just departed and to take steps to insure the transportation of the body to Italy at the expense of the Italian Government."
This was the unusual message sent to Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., by Premier Benito Mussolini; for seldom it is that a Government takes official cognizance of an actress, even so great a tragedienne as the late Signora Eleonora Duse (TIME, April 28, MILESTONES).
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