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Died. Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, 14, younger son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan and brother of Prince Juan Carlos, Generalissimo Franco's hand-picked candidate for the Spanish throne; of a gunshot wound while cleaning a pistol in the game room of the family residence in exile; in Estoril, Portugal...
...talkiness. And while the text used by director Boris Goldovsky has its disappointing moments, these are more than compensated for by the immediacy of the humor and understanding of the 18th century intention. The story centers around two army officers Guglielmo and Gernando and their philosopher-friend Don Alfonso. The Don, challenging the fidelity of the soldiers' betrothed, proves to them the fundamental frailty of human nature...
...Morgan and David Loyd play the parts of the soldiers and suitors with gusto making the most of every movement. Don Alfonso is properly sententious expounding 18th century morals, although his voice occasionaly gets lost. Nancy Tricky as the more adventurous and less constant of the betrothed is charming with a pleasant touch of worldliness. Her counterpart Jacqueline Bezinet, however, at times makes the ridiculous even more ridiculous. She is a follower of the mouth stretching school of acting and her contortions tend unduly to travesty the text...
Sometimes the estimators were far rougher. Prince Alessandro Torlonia, son-in-law of Spain's former King Alfonso XIII, claimed that his income was $42,400; the collectors estimated...
...Nervous Type. In Chicago, fined $675 for 80-m.p.h. speeding, reckless driving and running through eleven red lights, Manuel Palide, 22, told Traffic Court Judge Alfonso Wells: "I must have been excited...