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23 June 1910 — Mezzaratta, Bologna | |
Thursday. 23rd [June 1910]. A heavy scirocco blowing all day made us very sleepy. In the early morning a company of soldiers went down the road outside the house “at ease” singing a chorus as they went down the hill followed by the officer in command on horseback. This makes one see that the choruses of soldiers so often introduced into the Italian Opera is not a strange event as one would imagine from our northern customs—but is a thing of constant occurrence in this “Land of Song.” The Frate came up in the evening & also Sigr Testoni the writer of comic plays a very lively nice little man—also Countess Carmelita Zucchini who lives in the town. We had a great discussion at dinner about Pss. Abimalech, née Demidoff who dances in public at Rome for the love of the “art”—dressed in tights &c painted in the face &c. She is a friend of the Zucchini & also of Da Laura’s but Da & Testoni & I could only blame her as being willing to thus expose herself to public gaze—even for the cause of charity. In England there is Lady Constance Richardson who dances with lightly veiled body at the music halls. I think it is all a sign of decadence & a very bad sign of the times. | |
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