Word: diavolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Marilyn Buferd, 33, reedy (5 ft. 8 in., 123 Ibs.) Miss America of 1946, who made a small splash in the Italian cinema (Al Diavolo La Celebrita); and Hans Orton, Los Angeles restaurateur; she for the second time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...should know him intimately"), made emptiness of the soul his province with his bleak rendering (1931) of Gog ("Is not bread perhaps the only thing that nourishes man, the only truth in the world?"). Long after his return to Roman Catholicism, Papini could still write hopefully in il Diavolo (1953): "Theological treatises will continue to say no to the doctrine of a total and final reconciliation [between God and the Devil], but the heart, which 'has reasons which reason knows not of,' will go on yearning for and expecting the answer...
...production was La Figlia del Diavolo (The Devil's Daughter), an unfamiliar approach to the old story of Salome, in which Composer Virgilio Mortari, 51, lightens Salome's character considerably while blackening still more that of her evil mother Herodias. In the Mortari approach, Herodias is literally the devil incarnate, and the part demands a mezzo-soprano who can sing, act and dance for close to 50 minutes almost without pause, and-not least-look devilishly attractive. Mortari and La Scala thought it over, last November offered the part to Rise...
...last week the question of Satan's salvation was once again warming theological tempers. Author-Philosopher Giovanni Papini, whose Life of Christ (1921) made him famous and who was converted to Roman Catholicism while writing it, made the Devil the subject of his latest (and 40th) book, Il Diavolo. And he decided that there was hope...