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...Strada. A bittersweet fable concerning a half-wit girl and a brutal carnival strongman; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...
...Strada. A bittersweet fable of a half-wit girl and a carnival strong man; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...
...Strada. A bittersweet fable of innocence and the brute concerning a halfwit girl, indentured to a brutal carnival strong man; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...
...week were two plays, one a drama of life, the other a drama of death. Anita Loos's Happy Birthday on NBC's Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T.) starred Betty Field in the role made famous on Broadway by Helen Hayes. It is the bittersweet tale of how a spinster librarian goes into a bar in pursuit of happiness and finds life and liberty there as well. Betty Field did a creditable job as the librarian in a long and unlikely drunk scene, but was hardly good enough to save a play that was sicklied...
...estate of Industrialist Lammot du Pont, who died in 1952. Lately, however, alarmists in Delaware have cried that rising costs would put the state in the red by the end of fiscal 1956. Last week State Auditor Clifford Hall pacified his fearful fellow citizens, reminded them of the bittersweet fact that Industrialist Eugene du Pont had died in 1954. Delaware's take: $4,500,000-the harbinger of another pleasant surplus...