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...woman on the Continent whom Mario can trust to love him for love alone. Reason: she is stone deaf. That is, until she has that operation, "dangerously close to the brain." If, like Johanna, moviegoers could keep their ears closed and their eyes open, they might enjoy Salzburg, Rome, Capri and Anacapri in fetching color. And by letting Zsa Zsa be Zsa Zsa, Director Rudi (Dodsworth) Mate has managed to extract a jigger of humor from a magnum of slush. When Mario protests the presence of reporters at what was to be an intimate little party, Zsa Zsa says...
Last week, swarming to Capri in the thousands, tourists from Stockholm and Skowhegan discovered that Douglas' isle of dreams is rapidly being converted into a larger Coney Island with peculiar Mediterranean overtones. Last year Capri's 9,000 inhabitants watched 1,250,690 visitors scurry about the island; this year even more tourists are expected. Recoiling at the mere memory of Capri's milling mob of middle-class humanity, one starchy American matron indignantly proclaimed: "And for this I gave up a papal audience...
...Crowd Watchers. Today's typical Capri visitor is not the Roman princeling or wealthy foreign eccentric of old; far more often, he is the earnest German tourist who has come over just for the day on the ferry from Naples (fare: 70?) wearing only shorts and sandals, carrying only a camera and a lunch box. And to meet the taste of the new invaders, the Capresi have converted the once-charming fishing village of Marina Grande into a boardwalk displaying cheap religious bibelots and tinny music boxes that wheeze out the saccharine strains of The Isle...
From Marina Grande most visitors take a shiny new aluminum funicular (fare: 28?) up to the tiny Piazza Umberto, Capri's main square. There the day excursionist mounts the steps behind the piazza-to save money, he does not take a cafe table-and watches the crowd swirling beneath: men with pink shoes and dyed blond hair, women in sequined toreador slacks or skintight shorts...
...middle-class Capri does its best to live up to the reputation of the island that takes its name from the goats that used to sport on its hillside. Women visitors to Capri outnumber men 4 to 1. ("That figure," noted an Italian paper tartly last week, "does not include members of the third sex.") Drawn by the abundance of femininity, Italian males drift from one pretty visitor to another, always careful to move on before it comes time to pay the bill. "These men flap around like butterflies," lamented a French girl. "In France we are delicate and have...