Word: adano
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Bell for Adano (adapted by Paul Osborn from John Kersey's novel; produced by Leland Hayward) keeps its tone but not its resonance when rung in the theater. Although Playwright Osborn has been resourceful in retelling the John Hersey story and scrupulous about preserving its spirit, the result is a nice play rather than a notable one. The picture it presents is not quite dramatic enough, the presentation a little on the bumpy side...
...well-known story of earnest, hu mane AMG Major Joppolo, who made democracy work in Fascist-ridden Adano, and of bullying General Marvin who bounced him for defying the General's undemocratic orders, is a timely parable, limited in its black-&-white simplicity but illuminating. The play has all the book's affirmation, but not enough of its anger-for one thing, because General Marvin is nothing more than a first-act offstage below and never becomes a visible antagonist. Squeezing the whole life of the Sicilian town into Joppolo's office also carries penalties: some things...
...Life. This in turn led to his Hollywood start in a bit part with Hepburn and Tracy in Woman of the Year. He established himself in Wake Island. Greenwich Village is the first picture in which he has sung and danced. Next role: Captain Purvis in A Bell for Adano...
Meanwhile, 1,500 air miles north and east across smoking, panicky Germany, John Hersey, author of the best-selling "Into the Valley" and "A Bell for Adano," is newly arrived in Moscow to take up his latest assignment succeeding Dick Lauterbach, who is returning to New York after nine months in Russia. (When the Red Armies start rolling over the "holy soil" of Germany, Hersey will tell you how the Muscovites savor this well-earned vengeance...
...Council on Books in Wartime. "Incredibly honest-a triumph of free speech," says the Dallas Morning Times. "Hersey has circumvented censorship by putting his observations into fiction form. One of the most inspiring books of the season," writes the Portland Oregonian. The Army Times calls A Bell for Adano "a tough book, slashing and cutting at a system personified by one of the Army's most publicized generals." And the Atlanta Constitution says: "It makes you proud to be an American," but "it may well be the basis of a Congressional investigation...