MAGAZINE UNDER FIRE AT N.Y. UNIVERSITY; ' Her' Number of Medley is Attacked -- Chancellor's Committee Starts Inquiry.
Date: 25 March 1926
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Dario Fo Birthday, Date of Birth
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (Italian: [ˈdaːrjo ˈfɔ]; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his time he was "arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre". Much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari (medieval strolling players) and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte.
His plays have been translated into 30 languages and performed across the world, including in Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, India, Iran, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yugoslavia. His work of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s is peppered with criticisms of assassinations, corruption, organised crime, racism, Roman Catholic theology, and war. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he took to lampooning Forza Italia and its leader Silvio Berlusconi, while his targets of the 2010s included the banks amid the European sovereign-debt crisis. Also in the 2010s, he became the main ideologue of the Five Star Movement, the anti-establishment party led by Beppe Grillo, often referred to by its members as "the Master".
Fo's solo pièce célèbre, titled Mistero Buffo and performed across Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America over a 30-year period, is recognised as one of the most controversial and popular spectacles in postwar European theatre and has been denounced by Cardinal Ugo Poletti, Cardinal Vicar for the Diocese of Rome, as "the most blasphemous show in the history of television". The title of the original English translation of Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga! (Can't Pay? Won't Pay!) has passed into the English language, and the play is described as capturing "something universal in actions and reactions of the working class".
His receipt of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature marked the "international acknowledgment of Fo as a major figure in twentieth-century world theatre". The Swedish Academy praised Fo as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden". He owned and operated a theatre company. Fo was an atheist.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Wednesday, March 24, 1926
- Place of Birth
- Sangiano
- Age
- 99
- Star Sign
- ♈
The March 24, 1926 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 82 day of the year. President of the United States was Calvin Coolidge.
If you were born on this day, you are 99 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, March 24, 2025, 226 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in 138 days. You have lived for 36,386 days, or about 873,283 hours, or about 52,397,019 minutes, or about 3,143,821,140 seconds.
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24th of March 1926 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on March 24, 1926
FOR BAN ON PICTURES IN ASSAULT CASES; Newcombe Pleads at Albany for Law Against Newspaper Publication. PUBLISHERS PROTEST BILL Spokesman Declares Press Already Exercises a Voluntary Censorship.
Date: 25 March 1926
Special to The New York Times
Dist Atty R S Newcombe pleads for Sen McGarry's bill banning publication by newspapers or other publications of name or picture of victims of sexual attacks; F K H Keefe, for publishers, opposes bill, hearing before Codes Com of Sen
WHEAT AT CHICAGO HAS ANOTHER BREAK; Selling Fever Sweeps the Market and May Option Loses More Than 2 Cents. HEAVY OFFERING FROM CURB Line of 1,500,000 Bushels Is Put Into the "Pit" Near the Close -- Other Grains Drop.
Date: 25 March 1926
Special to The New York Times
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Date: 25 March 1926
Ed on establishment by New Orleans Times-Picayune of Chair of Journalism in Tulane Univ to mark 90th anniversary of paper
TOPICS IN WALL STREET.; News, Comment and Incident, On the Stock Exchange and In the Financial Markets.
Date: 25 March 1926
STOCKS COLLAPSE IN WAVE OF SELLING; Second Severe Break in Prices This Month Caused by Broad Liquidation. AVERAGE LOWEST OF YEAR American Can Off 22 1/4 Points -- 2,625,925 Shares Dealt In -- Many Factors in Decline. STOCKS COLLAPSE IN WAVE OF SELLING
Date: 25 March 1926
Selling wave causes collapse of stock prices
ARMS CONFERENCE IS FIXED FOR MAY 18; Chamberlain in Commons Announces Date for Opening the Preliminary Parley. OUR HELP IS WELCOMED But Small Nations Fear for Success Unless Russia Also Is Represented.
Date: 25 March 1926
By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Announces date for preparatory conf in Commons
YALE SEEKS DATA ON STUDENTS' LIVES; Personnel Questionnaire Will Be Used as a Basis of Advice for Future Careers. SCHEME STIRS PROTESTS Majority of the Undergraduates, However, Contend That It Will Prove Helpful.
Date: 25 March 1926
Special to The New York Times
Questionnaire asking for data on students' lives will be used as a basis of advice for future careers; some students protest
LEGION SEEKS END OF TEXTILE STRIKE; Post Offers Services in Move to Bring Mill Owners and Employes Together. FLAG GIVEN TO WORKERS Communist Leader Accepts It -- Nine More Are Arrested in New Fights.
Date: 24 March 1926
Special to The New York Times
Gerald V Carroll Post of Amer Legion offers to mediate in strike; strikers are disappointed over report from Wash that no Congressional investigation will be made