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...readers of The Little World of Don Camilla, which tells of a gentle Italian priest's struggles with ungentle Communists, might picture the author as an amiable, chuckly type who would never have a hard word for anybody except Reds. Actually, Author-Journalist Giovanni Guareschi, 45, is a fierce monarchist, with a fierce mustache and a fierce tongue. Guareschi edits the brilliant satirical weekly, Candido, which pillories politicians of the center as well as those of the left. Three years ago, a Candido cartoon depicted President Einaudi (some of whose income is derived from vineyards) reviewing a troop...
...Golden Coach is the story of what happens when a band of strolling players of the Renaissance, a commedia dell' arte company from Italy, troops into a Spanish colonial seat in South America to play for the uncomprehending rurals and the hayseed nobility of the region. Camilla, the Columbine (Anna Magnani), in love with a young Castilian noble she met on the voyage over (Paul Campbell), is soon juggling the local bullfighter (Riccardo
...viceroy then makes his move: he makes Camilla a present of his golden coach of state. His council protests. At their threat to depose him, the viceroy yields. But Camilla gives them all the sharp edge of her tongue, whirls away in the coach before anybody can stop her, and yields herself to the athletic embraces of the matador...
...three convince her. All three are sent away. Camilla is through with men? One never knows. Her next visit is to the bish op, all-powerful in the colony. To him she presents the coach of state. The crisis is averted. "Camilla," the bishop announces, "will sing at High Mass...
...Citizens Development Committee and the National Citizens Commission for Public Schools. He doesn't keep up with all his own soap operas (there are too many), listens in only when driving his car. He seldom brings work home with him, spends plenty of time with his handsome wife Camilla (who often accompanies him on business trips) and their three children: 17-year-old Nancy Sue ("Bitsy"), now a Bryn Mawr freshman; Barbara Ellen, 15; chunky Malcolm Neil, 10, who McElroy describes as a "champion consumer...