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...narrative begins to forge the complex network of bonds entangling the rest of the principals in the movie. The story unfolds as Emma invites Deedee's eldest daughter Emilia (Browne), an 18-year-old ballet student bursting with raw talent and innocent sexuality, catches Emma's eye and is promptly invited to join the company. Deedee leaves the household and dance school in the capable hands of her husband and accompanies Emilia to New York, intent on supervising her climb to stardom. The impressionable protege soon takes a strong liking to her mentor Emma (who happens to be Emilia...
...became a kind of lay analyst to a cross-section of his society. Titled ladies, including the Countess of Essex and Somerset, consulted him. So did churchmen, merchants, seafarers, servants and prostitutes. A grandson of Thomas More was one of his clients, as were Shakespeare's landlady and Emilia Bassano, the mysterious Venetian who Rowse claims (in Shakespeare the Man) was the "Dark Lady" of the sonnets...
Laurinda Barrett, as Emilia, deserves a kind word for her prison scene, and Theodore Sorel for his yeoman doubling as a lord a trial officer, and a gentleman...
...Novelli's election was the most notable of the Communist gains-made largely at the expense of the Christian Democrats-in Italy's regional and municipal elections last month (TIME, June 30). Last week also, Liguria joined the three regions of Italy's longtime "Red Belt"-Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria-when a Communist-led coalition took control of the regional council. Red-dominated coalition governments are also expected to win power in the Piedmont region, Venice and possibly Naples...
...regional governments, 86 of its 95 provinces and 6,347 of its 8,065 cities and towns, the Communists made stunning inroads. They captured the Liguria region, embracing Genoa and the Italian Riviera, to go along with the three regions they already controlled in the Communist "Red Belt"-Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria. They out polled the long-entrenched Christian Democrats in the Marches on the Adriatic as well as in the Piedmont. They won the industrial powerhouses of Milan and Turin, as well as Naples and Venice...