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...Empty Canvas (which was organizing published under the title La Noia, , naturally, boredom) defines preoccupation as "the on of all relationship with reality". by its hero Dino, a man of with painting, war, his mother, and even his own on boredom, the novel de- a lengthy episode in his search detachment from anything that out hope or mystery. By accident the model and mistress of an painter who occupied the studio- just above his, and who has . The girl, Cecilia, offers to for Dino, but Dino no longer paints. She offers to sleep with him, but although she does...
...prostitute, trying to shame her, and trying to marry her. But her answers to his endless interrogations prove noncommittal, her sexual contact with him (though pleasant) strangely incomplete. She uses his money to support another lover (Luciani) and confesses the fact freely; and refuses to marry him. Entirely defeated, Dino drives his car into a tree in an effort at suicide, fails, and regains consciousness placidly supposing his problem settled because he no longer loves Cecilia...
...which Tula Ellice Finklea, Doris Kappelhoff, Archie Leach, Frederick Austerlitz, Norma Jeane Baker, Dino Crecetti and Roy Fitzgerald became household names, though not their own (see SHOW BUSINESS...
Among actors of Italian and Spanish background, for example, Dino Crecetti opted to be Dean Martin, Margarita Cansino became Rita Hayworth, Anna Maria Italiano is now Anne Bancroft. Anglicizing their names, Anthony Benedetto became Tony Bennett and Giovanni de Simone became Johnny Desmond. Among Jews, Izzy Itskowitz probably needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...
...drawing room, is assuredly no Fairbanks. The Clansmen loaf kiddingly through their parts, acquiring suntans. No one, of course, bothers to look bothered as the hostiles approach. Such expressions as are evident reflect the sudsy affability of a pipe fitters' picnic (Hey, get a load of Dino on a horse...