Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast, all of which has appeared in opera, radio, and concert performances, includes: Don Giovanni, Foster; Leporello, Matthew Lockhart; Masetto and II Commendatore, Edmund Hurshell; Don Ottavio, Eugene Cox; Donna Anna, Louise Scarbino; Zerlina, Joan Moynagh; and Donna Elvira, Louise Edson...
...Italian film, "Revenge," now being shown at the Beacon Hill, is not cut from the same hearty fabric as were its illustrious predecessors from the country. Though it contains in its cast two of Italy's biggest stars, Anna Magnani and Gino Cervi, their talents can do little to redeem a weak and confusing plot, poor photography, a strident musical score, and the general low quality of the film...
...Anna Magnani is a very stunning woman and has a way of making her fellow actors pale beside her. The few exciting moments near the end of "Revenge" in which Signorina Magnani is allowed to open all valves are the only worthwhile ones in the film...
...ragged; torn gloves dangled from his filthy hands; he wore long underwear and no trousers. In a matter-of-fact voice he explained that he was Paul Makushak, 33. For ten years, or maybe it was eleven, he said, he had been living in the cramped cubbyhole. His mother, Anna, had fed him by lowering food through the chimney on a clothesline. When his mother became sick and had to be taken to Greenpoint Hospital, she had asked her neighbor, Mrs. Kowalsky, to take over...
American Mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft...