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...better-than-average Italian films. But the higher, she goes, the harder Gina has to work. She and Mirko have formed three corporations to handle her career and investments, and they have permitted themselves only two extravagances: a glaring red Lancia Aurelia and a pink stucco villa on Via Appia Antica, right next door to the place where the Empress Poppaea used to take her daily bath in the milk of 300 asses. They have planted 300 trees on the grounds, laid out broad English lawns, strewn the area with ancient paving stones and 3rd century sarcophagi. As she surveys...
Jacques de Menasce: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Edmund Appia and the composer at the piano; Vanguard). Like Paganini and Liszt, Composer de Menasce writes his own showpieces. If not exactly a world-shaker, this one is able, sophisticated and full of pianistic beans...
Jones is the most important designer, not only of the three, but of the entire American theater. Influenced directly by Gordon Craig's "new stagecraft," and indirectly by Adolphe Appia's theories of light, Jones designed a production of "A Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" in 1915. Instead of using stained glass and gothic arches to indicate a medieval scene, Jones symbolized the spirit of the play with light frame construction and cheerful primary colors. Historical accuracy was unimportant; in its place Jones put his own, highly personal, response to the play...
...bustle of hopeful activity hummed up & down Petrarch', "fair land which Apennines cut in twain "' seas and Alps surround." After a worrisome winter drought, the cypress groves of Tuscany and the rocky pastures of the south were turning a promising green under welcome rains. Along the Via Appia, middle-class families spread picnic lunches of bread, salami and strong red wine. From Venice to Capri hotels and restaurants looked forward to a season of 2,000,000 tourists, bringing American dollars and British pounds. The springtime wave of foreigners already crowded the sidewalk cafes of Rome...
...commander in Italy, boasted that his planes had knocked out rail communication so completely that no through trains had moved from the Po Valley to the Gustav line since March 24; the Germans had to rely on truck transport, chiefly at night, over Highway No. 7 -the Via Appia-and Highway No. 6-Via Casilina...