Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patoot's Manchild No. i, Vittorio, 21, who sports a fine young spinach, and his pretty poopsy, Signorina Orsola Buvoli of Milan, penniless and proud of it. Rome's swellegant hotel will feed the churchgoers out of the Big Patoot's private cache of frog-skins. . . . Dream pigeon of the week is Silvia di Rosa. The date: Feb. 8. Was Rome caught with its toga down by the sudden announcement last week that her Mark Antony is the 25-year-old boss of the Patoot's family paper Popolo d'ltalia, none other than Vito...
...ways of Europeans, Gallagher wanders through elaborate settings making remarks like "60 feet away you can't tell them apart and 60 days later you don't care. . . . All women drive you screwy except your mother and she drove your old man screwy." Best musical number: dream sequence of Johann Strauss playing his Blue Danube for the Emperor. Worst comedy sequence: members of Bellew's Band wriggling around in a trained seal act in which they shockingly resemble a familiar type of paralytic...
...commentary on current events." It would provide a symbol of solidarity around which to rally world Jewry to the defense of fellow Jews suffering the lash of Nazi persecution. Director Reinhardt, who had his huge indoor Miracle ten years behind him, his huge outdoor A Midsummer Night's Dream one year in the future, agreed to take on the job. He called in Novelist Werfel, who was completing his best-selling Forty Days of Musa Dagh, to do the book. He called in Composer Weill, who had finished his music for Dreigroschenoper but had not yet dreamed of Johnny...
...Cameraman Eddie Cronjager, earlier sequences of Skater Henie practicing for the Olympics on an Alpine pond, later ones of her leading an ice-ballet in Madison Square Garden, may be kindergarten to Skater Henie. Audiences are likely to find them the brilliant crystallization of a levitationist's dream...
Cousin Giulio, who succeeded Giovanni in the Papacy, wangled a more brilliant match for little Catherine than old Pope Leo had dared to dream about. At 14 she became the bride of heavy-lidded Henri, second son of the King of France. For a long time she was unable to conceive a child, and her sterility became important when the Dauphin died and her husband became heir to the throne. By trying everything once she managed, after ten barren years, to become a mother. Thereafter she triumphantly proved her ability by producing nine more children...