The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-07
Memories of Ancient Italy
Revived by CoIorfuI
Pageantry.
TROOPS PASS IN REVIEW
Belgian Princess Receives
Pledge Of FeaIty as
Future Queen.
BY THOMAS B. MORGAN
United Press stan Correspondent

ROME. Jan. Pope Plus XXI. as
a spiritual and temporal sovereign,
received foreign royalty at the Vat
lean today for the first time since
restoration of the papal state, when
King Albert and the royal Belgian
wedding party visited him at the
Vatican.
Accompanied by Queen Elizabeth
Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid,
Prince Charles and Princess Marie
Jose, the king was driven to the
Vatican at IL a. m, directly from
the quirinaL
King Albert and Queen Eliza
beth conversed with Pope Plus for
twenty minutes. Princess Astrid
Princess Marie Jose, Prince Leopold
and Prince Charles were received
after the king and queen had de-
parted. They remained in the
throne room for ten minutes.
Princess Marie Jose said she was
immensely happy" to receive the
pope's blessing on the eve of her
wedding.
AbandOns Custom
In leaving from the Italian pal
ace rather than from the residence
Of his own diplomatic representa-
tive, King Victor was the first to
abandon the custom-maintaine
since the popes became prisoners
of the Vatican"-in which visitors
avoided going directly from the ItaI-
ian palace to the papal residence.
Under the escort of Monsignor
Caccia- Dominioni, master of the
papal household, the king and his
family arrived shortly thereafter at
the small throneroom, at the en-
trance of which they were met by
the Pope. All the visitors genu-
fiected and kissed the papal ring.
The Pope took his seat on the
throne, while the royal family were
grouped around him on gilded arm
chairs upholstered in red damask.
Astrid and Marie Jose sat at the
kings right, while the two princes
were on his left.
Pageant COIorful
Every street in Rome and every
highway into the Eternal City be-
came a living mass Of color during
the pageant earlier in the day.
Swarming into the capital by
every means of Sportation-and
on foot-came legions of pilgrims
from every part of the kingdom, to
make holiday and sing their homage
to Marie Jose.
On these streets were seen figures
that might have been found In
Rome, treading their way to the
games in the Colosseum, twenty
centuries ago. And they were
.iostled by modern buffalo boys
from the Pontine marshes, peasants
from Lombardy. and tanned desert
riders from Tripoli.
Every district of Italy from the
Alps to Somaliland and from Eritrea
to Sicily, was represented in the
gorgeous and spontaneous display.
United Nation Shown
The kaleidoscope crowd appar-
emily had one object-the object ex-
pressed Monday by state officials
and diplomatS-to show to Marie
Jose the strength and beauty of d
united nation, and to picture for
her the high lights of history of
twenty-Seven centuries.
Each of the regions featured its
own long history from dynasty to
dynasty. from triumph and oppreS-
sion to the days of the fearless pa
triot, Gambetti and a united Italy
under the House of Savoy.
The professions issued from the
central military barracks, known as
the Macao and moved slowly, i'm
preSsively along the Via VENT Sett-
mbre to the famous fountains of the
Quirinal square. Standing erect at
military salute. Prince Humbert
greeted each division from the main
balcony of the palace.
Princess Marie Jose stood at his
side. smiling and watching the
pageantry of the country which aft
er Wednesday will be hers. The
pageants of the Venetian regions es-
pscially interested her because it
was there that she attended school