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...Duomo, as he had done on a similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized," he was vilified as a "coward and traitor." As they left, the comrades spat angrily on the city hall stairs. They were equally frustrated when they tried to stir up a street march. Scelba's celere (jeep-riding riot squads) dispersed them...
Pausing briefly between play dates, Actress Tallulah Bankhead told the New York World-Telegram and Sun's Columnist Ward Morehouse about the trials & tribulations of touring the U.S. in Noel Coward's Private Lives: "I've now played Private Lives everywhere except under water. We've been doing remarkable business. Got $25,000 the week before Christmas playing in Alabama, but, oh God, some of my relatives nearly drove me crazy ... In playing this part through the South I found myself getting, oh, so Southern-if Noel could have caught...
...Astonished Heart (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) returns Britain's Noel Coward to the screen in the double role of scenarist and star.' For a while, it seems cause for mild celebration. Coward still handsomely fills a Mayfair drawing room with the glitter of verbal bric-a-brac. But when he begins using the stagy artifice of his comedies in behalf of a plot that combines half-baked psychiatry with bogus tragedy, even his admirers are likely to blush...
...Coward plays a sedately married London psychiatrist who goes off his rocker over a flighty, glamorous divorcee (Margaret Leighton). His devoted wife, played by Celia (Brief Encounter) Johnson, introduces them, goes conveniently off to her mother's place so they can fall in love, and then understandingly dispatches them on a tour of the Continent so they can get the whole ugly mess out of their systems. What drives Coward into the jitters and finally off a housetop is not guilt over his own infidelity-perish the thought-but a suspicious jealousy of his mistress...
...these ludicrously underplayed dramatics. Miss Leighton's role is the only one with any conviction, and she ably makes the most of it. Wearing his hauteur like a mask and registering most emotions with his eyebrows, Coward almost qualifies for a Broadway revue sketch parodying Noel Coward. In more ways than one, the victim of the piece is Celia Johnson, a fine actress doomed to wear a stiff upper lip through the whole ugly mess...