Car of Thespis

Once more Pope Pius XI's loyal Count Dalla Torre, editor of Osservatore Romano rushed into the breach last week and attacked the Fascist Party. Cause of the quarrel: the perambulating Fascist theatre, grandiloquently known as "Car of Thespis." From distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most holy Feast of the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi, a legal holiday in all Latin countries.

Bitterly Osservatore Romano pointed out that this was not the first time that the Car of Thespis had offended. They had opened their second summer season in Rome itself with this same play, despite the fact that the Vatican Concordat expressly provided that the Fascist state would allow nothing to occur in Rome to injure its position as the home of Catholicism. Present at this heretical performance, and publicly applauding was none less than Il Duce himself.

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