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...richly varied, stylishly photographed settings that effuse the florid flavor of the period, the writing-directing team of Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa brings to the foreground an impoverished layabout named Meo (Paolo Ferrari). Meo bungles his way into the Vatican vocal conservatory that separates the boys from the men, bribes the surgeon not to operate on him, but somehow manages to retain a passable falsetto. Later favored by the nobility, the false capon cuckolds his patrons. He reveals his secret to one elegant lady (Anouk Aimée) while he helps her undress. Another (Barbara Steele) learns the truth...
...Chicago on a Japanese edition of the jazz magazine, sold out 2,000 copies of the first issue at 50? each, expects soon to be selling 10,000 copies per issue, almost half the magazine's U.S. sales. The September issue features a story called "Tragedy of Newport Festa," telling of the riots that broke up the Newport Jazz Festival this summer. In this case, the Japanese got there first: at Tokyo's first jazz festival last summer, an overflow crowd almost tore down the joint to hear a succession of Japanese big bands and combos and moan...
...Madonna. Once each year, to emphasize the differences between themselves and the'more effete Romans across the river, the proud Trasteverini pay homage to saints and sinners alike in a fortnight-long Festa de' Noantri-the Festival of Us Others. The celebration begins with a solemn procession in honor of the Madonna del Carmine, for as well as being the brawlingest quarter of Rome, Trastevere boasts the first church ever built in Rome to the glory of the Madonna. But with the procession over, the solemnity is at an end, and for two weeks the alleys of Trastevere...
...Italy's Reds, September is festa month, a time for rousing party parties, where fun is mixed with the serious business of renovating Communist dogma and replenishing Communist coffers. Piazzas and parks throughout Italy echoed last week with the sounds of lively local Communist festas. The biggest blowout of all, attended by the party's biggest Red wigs, was to be held in Florence's gracious old Cascine park. But Florence's stoutly anti-Communist police chief did not fall into the fun-loving spirit. Last week he abruptly withdrew the party's permit...
Seething over this latest example of the Christian Democrats' new determination to harass the enemy by every legal means, the Communists called a one-day citywide strike in Florence. And at a merry festa in Ravenna, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was so mad he let his fangs show. Usually he talks a sweetly reasonable line; last week he gloated over the death of EDC, hailed the armistice in Indo-China and boiled with indignation at the banning of the festa in Florence...