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Show The Long Trains for Wed-lding Wed-lding Belles and New OnToYlls Described by D'Anarrc:Muff-Gordon . 0 ITALY, the day is here the cause ist" Shall fair Trentmo longer wait for her .costume, white Trieste is ours to take at will the Golden Fleec t Of our long quest awaits one gallant final thrust' 0 Garibaldis Italy' United, young With virile powers undramed a Nation doubly blest Art thou' The enemy is spent ere long must rest, 5 So strike' Let Italy s fame among the stars be flung! Tond Mother of the World thy dearest children bleed, s Hearthstones of France inoke thee in their hour of need. Bold Albion where Caesar s spirit dwells to day, Hard pressed needs but thy Caesars -alor full displayed IKs3 To hold the waves she rules and ffy say the Teuton Nay' 3l Strike Italy' Thou'rt Mother J&ts of a World Remade' M Latest Snapshot of Gabriels d Annunzio in His Uniform as an Italian Army Officer elorlous Mediterranean this morning a Duchess of the race of the Medici waited for me upon the shore She threw a purple robe over my splendid nud ty She held my white steed by the bridle as I mounted and rode away After this he met Eleonora Duse The most gifted actress, of Italy and as many think, of the whole world succumbed qulcttly to his remarkable fascinations Then he committed com-mitted the amazing treachery of describing describ-ing their whole romance in his next novel called Fuoco (Fire) The heroine La Tocarina is a portrait of Eleonora Duse ,as everyone saw and the story is that of her love for d Annunzio It is known how Mme Duse suffered under th s blow and how it ended the association of Italy s two great artists But the influence of d Annunzio over Duse was not ended at once She had accepted an engagement In Ber Iln under the ond tion that she would play none of d Annunzio s dramas One after noon a telegram came assuring her of the poets repentance and of his need of her She wanted to- break her contract on the tpot and retu -n to Italy and she yielded to the manager s plead ng only when ha consented that she finish the week wltn, The Dead City d Annunzio s dramatio masterpiece ' Her h gh hopes were all too soon to be crushed again How ever s ncerely he might love for the moment, It was not in dAn nunz o to be sat sfied with one woman And so he stabbed Eleonora Duse tw ce in rapid succes on D Annunz o s huge accumulation of debts n Italy caused his creditors to seize his property and to take other action against him To avoid embarrassment he exiled 1 lmself to Par s where he achieved, new successes financially greater than ever w th h s poetical dramas m French such as Saint Sebastien and La Pisanelle It wa then that he became infatuated w th Ida Rubinstein the picturesque and g fted Russ an dancer who was one of the chief causes of the success of his plays She exercised a power over him no woman had ever done because she treated bim w 1th contempt whenever she felt like it. Now Ida Rubinste n is devoting herself heart and soul to the care of, wounded er French soldiers and d Annunz o Is the war , poet of h s country His reputation is of n course entirely restored in Italy No base o creditor would dare to proceed against ae him now |