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...Fabiani hedging against the future? Later, at a lake resort, I talked to sleek, handsome Aldo d'Elia, Florence's Fascist "chief of cabinet" from, 1934 to 1944. D'Elia consoles himself that the Florentine public is as cynically volatile today as in Savonarola's time. D'Elia says: "Florence is a pagan city. The people are easily impassioned, caustic and fickle. They will one day treat their present rulers as they treated...
Married. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheeler Stone, 53, former Allied Control Commissioner in Italy, onetime president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; and Countess Renata Arborio-Mella di Sant'Elia, 25, niece of the Pope's social secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Vatican City. Stone, who became a Roman Catholic a month before the wedding, was allowed to remarry in the church because 1) his first wife, a Catholic, died after their divorce, and 2) his second marriage (ending in divorce) to a Protestant was not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church...
...film to date by Producer Louis de Rochemont, who has already dedicated a couple of good ones (The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine) to the proposition that nothing is quite as real as the real thing, artfully used. This time, the proposition, is brilliantly demonstrated by Director Elia Kazan and by the nonprofessional actors as he handles them. There are some highly professional performances by Dana Andrews, Arthur Kennedy, Ed Begley and Lee J. Cobb...
...Sons (by Arthur Miller; produced by Harold Clurman, Elia Kazan & Walter Fried, in association with Herbert H. Harris) has a theatrical force that covers a multitude of sins. Playwright Miller (best known for his novel, Focus) tends to overload his plot and overheat his atmosphere. His writing is uneven, some of his main characters are sometimes unreal, and most of his minor characters are at all times unnecessary. But he combines enough purposefulness with enough power to make him the most interesting of Broadway's new serious playwrights-few of whom, unfortunately, are interesting...
Then Truckline's producers, Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan, tore into the critics. In an angry New York Times ad they announced they would close Truckline this week, but not "without saying a few things that are on our minds." Sample...