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...Norman Lewis (249 pp.; Rinehart; $3), brilliantly tells about a war of nerves in a Spanish village on the Costa Brava 16 years after the end of Spain's civil war. Its central character is Sebastian Costa, a fisherman who was unwillingly conscripted into the Franco army and decorated for an act of bravery he did not really perform. The village Republicans, who have neither forgiven nor forgotten the war, still subject Costa to a cold, polite but unrelenting boycott. When someone betrays a Republican agent sent from France, the village instantly, and without a hearing, condemns Costa...
...sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort of slapped together in unpleasant, grey, grim colors . . . We wouldn't have had it if Dali paid us." At his summer home on Spain's Costa Brava, Dali simmered: "It pains me that they won't pay . . . This lady becomes more Daliesque than I. She is trying to obtain publicity at my expense...
...hard until 6 in the evening, studies her part or reads scripts for an hour before bed at 10. She neither smokes nor drinks, never takes a real vacation (studio technicians for Beat the Devil called her "Lollofrigida"). On the set, says Director Vittorio De Sica, "Gina is really brava." She memorizes the whole script in advance, not just a scene at a time, as the shooting schedule calls for it. She is always on time, always "reacts immediately to advice," says Director René Clair...
There were cries of "Brava! Brava!" from the newsmen for her use of Italian...
...Naumburg Award to cover the cost of a Manhattan debut last year. In December, she gave a Town Hall recital that won her enthusiastic reviews. That did it. She was signed up for a U.S. tour for next season and got a tryout with Toscanini. He was murmuring "Brava" before she had gone very far, "Bravissima...