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...making it the only known 14th century fresco in Milan. Part of the fresco was destroyed in early attempts to restore it, but enough remains to set scholars wondering who the artist was. One hypothesis is that he might well be one Giovanni de Milano, born near Como, who came to Milan in the 1370-80 period and introduced a more realistic style with emphasis on details of robes and three-dimensionality...
...Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Irene Dunne, Buddy Hackett...
...been seduced by her stepfather. Her mother died of heartbreak as a consequence; her brother Eugene, after shooting and nearly killing his stepfather, had been shipped off by the family to South America. Natalia herself, swiftly married off to an obliging nobleman, had shed her spouse before coming to Como for the 1906 season...
Final Reckoning. Floating graciously through Como's golden villages and classic villas, Madame Solario is pursued timorously by an Englishman, Bernard Middleton, and tenaciously by a barbaric Russian, Count Kovanski. Natalia Solario does not stoop to conquer. Yet her adroitly detached existence ends abruptly one evening when brother Eugene returns, penniless and impenitent, from his twelve-year exile. At this point, Madame Solario shifts from waltz time to offbeat fandango...
...Glove Restraint. Though Natalia flees Como, she decides that fate has left her no choice: she is now inextricably linked with her brother. Behind them, the ill-fated pair leave broken hearts and a suicide...