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...best dramatic fun by dusting off an old Italian chestnut, Alberto Casella's Death Takes a Holiday, which was first seen on Broadway in 1929. Actor Joseph Wiseman played the Grim Reaper taking a three-day fling at mortal follies, and was ably seconded by Stiano Braggiotti as the tortured duke and Lelia Barry as the girl who falls in love with Death. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, veteran Pat O'Brien had an actor's field day in The Chase...
...Republican-greeted his well-wishers like a matinee idol, which in tact he had once been. Before entering politics he had appeared in 18 movies, was Marlene Dietrich's leading man in a 1934 picture called The Scarlet Empress. Beside him stood his pretty, Italian-born wife, Francesca Braggiotti Lodge, onetime dancer, whose singing of Italian songs in Bridgeport's Italian quarter had helped her husband in his races for Congress...
Connecticut Congressman John Davis Lodge's good-looking, exactress wife, Francesca Braggiotti, who has been teaching health-dancing to other Washington ladies (TIME, March 17) took a flier in another field, gave instructions to girl delegates to the American Legion School of Democracy. "My definition of character," said she, "is the ability to say no to yourself. Don't run your motor too hard, girls...
When she became the wife of handsome John Davis Lodge in 1929, Italian-born Francesca Braggiotti was famed as a beauty and a dancer. When her husband-Senator Lodge's brother, and once a movie actor-was elected to the House from Connecticut last November, beauteous Mrs. Lodge transplanted her talents to Washington. Last week, they were bearing strange fruit...
...informal lunch, a closed session in the afternoon. Then they all went over to the swank Sulgrave Club, where Chairman Reece (standing with his wife in the receiving line) pump-handled the visiting firemen: Connecticut's hand some new Representative John Davis Lodge and wife (onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti); retiring liaison man John Danaher; Indiana's Charles Halleck, probably next House majority leader; and all the other GOPsters from far & near who put up the cash and get out the vote...