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...mood proves strong enough to survive the story, though at times it almost flickers away. A young Italian immigrant (Gene Kelly) sets out to avenge his father, who was murdered by the gang for trying to report an extortion threat. Persuaded to organize the browbeaten community into resistance, Kelly is flung by the hoodlums into the first mass meeting, battered, bleeding and almost dead. Then he hits on the more cautious idea of sending a veteran Italian-American detective (J. Carrol Naish) to Italy to dig up criminal records that will enable the U.S. to deport its immigrant thugs...
...Wanamaker is an Italian-American laborer, Loa Padovani his wife and bearer of his four children, and poverty a regular tenant in their tenement apartment, in this adaptation of Pietro di Donata's "Christ In Concrete." Miss Padovani portrays calm acceptance and dogged belief almost perfectly and Kathleen Ryan, as Wanamaker's mistress, symbolizes the world in which right and wrong give way to strong and weak. Mr. Wanamaker lets himself be torn in two between the philosophies admirably; his final decision brings the film's conflicts out with clarity and force...
Most people eat. There are, therefore, a lot of eating places in the Boston and Cambridge area. The Ararat, as Armenian vittles bazaar at 71 Broadway, is tasty--and cheap, a bit out of the ordinary. Simeone's, 21 Brookline Street--1 block from Central Square--offers Italian-American cuisine for those who don't want to hike it all the way to Boston. You can't beat the Viking at 442 Stuart Street for variety. A heaping smorgasbord is within easy striking distance of most tables. Jake Wirth's on Stuart Street featrues the best local Gorman beer...
...long-expected solution. But though you implore acceleration, though you cannot respond sympathetically to the problems, you will be deeply impressed with Muni's superb performance. He utters perhaps too many "Dio Mio's," but the warmth and understanding which he brings to the role of the Italian-American wine producer are unsurpassed. He spends the entire second act in bed, recuperating from two broken legs. His gestures and facial expressions, worthy of pantomime, carry not only that act, but the whole play. I found myself waiting impatiently for his return each time he was absent from the stage. This...
This Oriental splendiferousness is extremely expensive. A newly formed Italian-American krewe spent $50,000 for this year's ball; the cost of all 49 would total half a million dollars. Supper parties for 49 carnival queens-one of whom wore a costume worth $3,500-would come to another $350,000. Merchants guessed that New Orleans women would spend three or four million dollars for clothes and trips to beauty parlors...