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Studio One in Hollywood: Straight off an unpretentious cuff, The Desperate Age probed an oft-hacked situation, offered an unhackneyed dramatization. The problem: Does a 28-year-old girl (Barbara Bel Geddes) continue her hapless romance with a married office chum (Wendell Corey) and ruin her chances for a normal life, or does she destroy her present happiness for an acceptable future emptiness? "I'll never love anyone as much," she says. "Maybe you can learn to," pleads her mother (Aline MacMahon). Retorts her daughter: "Maybe I'll have to learn to. That's what you mean...
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...Soprano Antonietta Stella, 28, made her Cio-Cio-San a wonderful complex of childish fever and womanly fire, effectively underplayed the bathetic frills the role is heir to. Her large, easily ranging voice shimmered and soared ecstatically, brought the house alive with a roar after her famous aria, Un bel...
...There is no honky-tonk hanky-pank at the Bocce; the men, in white shirts and black string ties, and the women, in flowered skirts and modest blouses, sit stiffly on the tiny stage, waiting their turns to line out La donna è mobile or Un bel di. The audiences come to hear music, and they listen with attention, shush fiercely at loud-crowing pub crawlers...
...Italian painters, sculptors and architects have rebounded in the postwar years to make Rome a serious rival of Paris as Europe's art capital. At year's end in Milan and Manhattan, two of Italy's leading painters showed that in painting, as in music, a bel canto lyricism is still a trademark of Italian...