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...Rome there were also unpolitical G.I.s on hand to meet Eva at the airport and give a low wolf-whistle as she emerged from her private plane in slick, flower-printed silk pulled skin-tight over her hips and bosom. There was an audience with the Pope, luncheon with the Foreign Minister, a Grand Hotel reception glittering with papal titles, and a dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived...
...nodded and asked how she was enjoying her trip. "Oh," said Eva, "it's been magnificent. The most moving sight to me has been seeing hundreds of people in Spain and here in Italy waiting for hours in the boiling sun just to be able to throw a flower...
Moss Rose (20th Century-Fox) is used in this thriller as a murderer's signature. Every time sinister-looking Victor Mature moves on to a new sweetheart, the flower is found on an open Bible beside the corpse of the girl he has just left. Peggy Cummins, a cockney showgirl who wants to be a lady, blackmails Mature into taking her for a visit to his elegant country mansion. There she hobnobs uneasily with his jealous fiancée (Patricia Medina) and his magnificent old mother (Ethel Barrymore). She also tries to play detective, and falls in love with...
This is gratifying, since the name, "Artkino" prefixed to a picture too often has portended a succession of monolithic protagonists, striking heroic stances and delivering themselves of Messages. "The Stone Flower," though, is a straight-out, uncomplicated fantasy about a young artisan who, comprehending that stone has a soul, seeks to create in this medium a flower more alive than the ephemeral real thing. The plot traces his wanderings in a fairy kingdom, and the effects of his dream on his everyday life. The wildly beautiful technicolor ("filmed," the program confides, "by a secret process") breathes a sort of glory...
...however, not altogether a thing of sheer wonder. The "hero," for instance, in his attempt to portray a starstruck artisan, wears a stunned, ox-like expression, and looks at all times like a ballet dancer converted for the occasion. In fact, his wooden absorption with creating the stone flower to the neglect of his unkissed bride and an amorous fairy queen, will for a while make you wonder about him. And Hollywoodisms creep in: the background music continually dictates what mood you must get in for upcoming scenes. And the seeking mind can read Significance into several episodes: someone scored...