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...Italian politics, Deputies who vote against their own party under the cover of a secret ballot are called snipers -i franchi tiratori. Last week, on an innocuous school-aid bill, the snipers struck. Near midnight, in an emptying chamber, they routed the Center-Left coalition government of Premier Aldo Moro by a vote of 250 to 221. Next day Moro submitted his resignation to President Giuseppe Saragat, who, after conferring with other Italian political leaders, is likely to invite Moro back to start all over again...
...ring true. It asks playgoers to believe that a thirtyish Madison Avenue copywriter (Elizabeth Allen) is making her first gaga-eyed trip to Venice. And it compounds disbelief by imagining this girl to be psychologically numb-struck and emotionally unhinged upon discovering that her Italian vacation lover (Sergio Franchi) is married. She cries when the curtain goes up, and she cries when the curtain goes down, and there is plenty to be sad about in between...
MEREDITH WILLSON VARIETY SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The first of three specials produced by the Music Man himself, this one features Caterina Valente, Sergio Franchi, Willson and his wife...
...incumbent Lanza is Sergio Franchi. Late of Cremona, he is the new favorite son of Las Vegas. And he opened last week as headliner at Manhattan's Copacabana. At Vegas' Hotel Sahara, he was not the headliner but merely a vocal lead-in to Comedian Shelley Berman-to Berman's considerable embarrassment, since Franchi kept getting standing ovations and multiple encores...
Singing a laryngeal ragout, Franchi booms out Shenandoah, Arrivederci Roma, an aria from Tosca, a flamenco number, even Chicago in Italian. He is a tall, thin fellow who begins stiffly but soon has his tie and jacket off and his shirt unbuttoned. His big tenor has baritone depth. It lacks the bel canto sweetness of high operatic stature, but it has a lot of impressive thunder. "Most people have never been in an opera house," says Sergio's musical director...