Word: doro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sands Hotel and the charms of a predatory female who invites him skindiving. "You do snorkel?" she asked. "Oh, fluently," replied Lahr with outrageous, beady-eyed insouciance, and in a trice he has filled out a preposterous, knee-length bathing suit. With a meddling, mixed-metaphored assist from Comedienne Doro Merande ("Don't jump the gun half-cooked"), Lahr got away with bushels of bad jokes ("I was married, but now I'm estranged." "I'm a stranger here myself"), some broad-farce ribbing of stockbrokers ("I don't want to sell-might make the market...
...finance the huge Italian Communist Party, the biggest west of the Iron Curtain (estimated 1,600,000 members). "The party cannot exist on dues," says Reale frankly. Apparently, however, the profits have been too big for individual Communists to leave solely to the party. Two years ago Augusto Doro was accused of making lucrative side deals for personal gain while manager of the oldest Red trading agency (SIMES) in Milan. Shortly afterward Eugenio Reale himself quit all his party offices, including his key post overseeing the foreign-trade agencies...
...group, they are red for the other. The love story is fatuous, the writer (Leo Carroll) gets lost in the crowd; and though Playwright Patrick is more than capable of a funny line, his ghosts make anything but a funny lineup. Only the Indian, thanks to saw-voiced Doro Merande, succeeds...