Word: dio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tortoise pace the plot progresses to its long-expected solution. But though you implore acceleration, though you cannot respond sympathetically to the problems, you will be deeply impressed with Muni's superb performance. He utters perhaps too many "Dio Mio's," but the warmth and understanding which he brings to the role of the Italian-American wine producer are unsurpassed. He spends the entire second act in bed, recuperating from two broken legs. His gestures and facial expressions, worthy of pantomime, carry not only that act, but the whole play. I found myself waiting impatiently for his return each time...
Between Bolger, the audience was variously entertained by a melange of unrelated items, best of which was Brenda Forbes' side-splitting version of the libretto of "Dio Walkure." Kaye Ballard, appealing young newcomer, displayed a good talent for putting over a humorous song; she would go far if only she could muster enough volume for the gallery seats. Further time was killed in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to portray "The American Tragedy" via the R-H (Rodgers and Hammerstein) formula. Dreiser is already dead, but his estate might find grounds for some sort of lawsuit here...
...Italian Assembly, one of his Christian Democrat opponents ended a bombastic speech with an appeal to the Blessed Virgin; the next speaker windily invoked the Holy Ghost. Communist Togliatti did not reply with dialectical materialism; instead, his steady voice crackled out the First Commandment-"lo sono il Signore Dio tuo. . . ." His fellow legislators cheered...
...brightest star of Victor's sky is the Met's Jugoslav-born soprano Zinka Mi-lanov. Her Pace, pace, mio Dio from La Forza del Destine and Voi lo sapete from Cavalleria Rusticana, helped by modern engineering, are improvements over most of the collectors' classics from the Golden Age. She also teams with the Met's Margaret Harshaw in a duet from Norma, and with Jan Peerce in the Miserere from // Trovatore. Others: Kerstin Thorborg, Blanche Thebom, Eleanor Steber, Alexander Kipnis...
Panama was swinging to the new President. Twenty-five of the National Assembly's 32 members had declared their sup port. The press, including brother Harmo dio Arias' Panama America, was strongly sympathetic. The Central American press generally applauded the change in Government...