Show Gastone Monaldi Wins Italy Daly by Unique Career Born of Noble Roman House His Life and Work Reads Like 0 Fairy Tale By ALICE ROHE N NEA EA Special Correspondent HOME March h Nobleman 12 Apache leading Italian actor Mention the name of Gastone 1 anywhere in Italy and you will soon learn that these three dl distinctions dis- dis belong to one and the same It Is safe to say that the he unique figure on the stage of any country is Gastone Monaldi His career Is dramatic and his life lIo story more sensational than any Of the dramas he Interprets I found him delighting delighting- the audiences audiences audi audi- of Ia a striking figure figurea a real Fra type Of course about my past why not not-I act It over and oven 01 again he conceded lUre Is his story and It s su such h to make malte an an American press agent ogeni fa farly gasp with envy Forty orty years cars just ago as as' In a fairy there tale was born to lh 1 noble Roman house houle of l a ason ason son Marchese Gastone Monaldi Ills His mother mothel died when he was a baby and his father fathe tr wr M 1 GASTONE MONALDI his own affairs left leCt he boy te tc the care of the servants When a very young man he wandered from the straight and narrow path and lJ before be- be fore very long all Home was shocked shock shock- ed to learn earn that one o of Its young noblemen had become a a. leader of the is the equivalent ut Apache lies lie's a a. little bit more terrifying terrifying ter- ter than the American gangster or thug He Is the real leader of the underworld or the mala vita evil life The same evil men und and the same sort o of women that are dominated dominated domi- domi by the thc Apache are here and of these Monaldi was a Ung master Then suddenly sixteen years ears a ago o ho he disappeared from the underworld Rome this time was shocked and Indignant lie had reformed Just Justas as In one of the roles he now plays love accomplished what paternal pray rs and aristocratic pleadings had failed to do lie He had met the beautiful Fernanda Fernan- Fernan da then an extra woman soman trying to get on the stage So violently violently vio- vio did he t fall In love with her that he not only reformed hut he became an actor an actor manager and a a. writer ot of dramas drama lIe He mar mal ned he he and she he became his leading leading- lad They now have havea a laughter of 16 15 Today Monaldi's theatre as his type of drama Is called J deals ix- ix elusively with the Teppa the underworld ITe He acts or ort t that at self which used to horrify Roman Ro- Ro man nobility ad of concealing lila his past whirl be he drama drama- ties It It Is another case cale of alt att following nature Anyone can reform said l Ional dl di It IC he has sufficient mot motIve There nl y be a pl reason reason rea- rea son too in his choice of plays Every evening on the stage he lives the life of the or or Apache just as In the old days he be lived in reality Negotiations are now on for tor Monaldi Mo- Mo naldi to tour South America and possibly the United states I |