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its great artists and thinkers, had been fatally inept at political autonomics and the collective excess of government. At the end of the first quarter - in July, united Italy, although over almost sixty years old, war harassed by fear, poverty and corruption; little if any attempt had been made toward the control of malaria on the stimulation of industry; the government acted chiefly to extort taxes, and Christ had not even reached Eboli to stop there. Aside from the tragic trend towards emigration, evident now almost as it was then, there were ferments working in 1925 which were destined finally to give Italy a respected place in a modern, industrialized Europe. The great films were on the way and "Open City" "Bicycle Thief" "Shoeshine" and the others were preparing to defeat the grandeurs of Hollywood, while commercial design in clothes, shoes, jewelry, furniture, etc. were to capture foreign markets. More important in the Rome of 1925 was