Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome Opera, scene of Soprano Callas' celebrated walkout due to "lowering of the voice" (TIME, Jan. 13), the boards again groaned under the strain of artistic temperament. During a rehearsal of Verdi's Don Carlos, famed Bulgarian Basso Boris Christoff and Italian Tenor Franco Corelli craftily maneuvered to gain the coveted stage-center spot. By the time Act II's libretto called for Corelli to draw his sword in defiance of Christoff (who played Philip II, Don Carlos' father), both singers were ready to fight. They drew, and Verdi was forgotten as the prop swords swished...
...Colosseum from my window." Replied Vaselli: "There's a hill in the way. Give me an order and I'll remove it." Cried the Duce: "I want a wide road joining the Palazzo Venezia and the Colosseum. Along it shall march Italian youth with its 8,000,000 sharp bayonets. It shall be called the Via dell' Impero...
There was a Chekhovian irony in seeing jaunty, paunchy Dictator Franco review Moorish. Spanish, German and Italian troops on victorious parade in 1939 and, an instant later hearing Narrator Walter Cronkite remind viewers that U.S. Sherman tanks roll down these same avenues today. As Scriptwriter Hughes explained: "Victory is a fragile thing, and history does not linger long in the 20th century...
...FACE FOR THE WORLD TO SEE, by Alfred Hayes (I 83 pp.; Harper; $3), is the latest book by the author who, a decade ago, wrote The Girl on the Via Flaminia, an effective novel about the blighted romance of a frail-gunning G.I. and a beautiful Italian girl who is bothered about being bought. Now Scriptwriter Hayes (The Rainmaker, Island in the Sun) has restaged his old no-soap opera. This time the shattered city is Hollywood. The Girl on Wilshire Boulevard is a blank-souled beauty with a neurotic yearning for stardom. The sentimental, insensitive...
...private-enterprise development of petroleum has been vastly successful, but Brazil and Argentina have long since adopted the French-Italian pattern of state oil enterprises. Frankly trying to export the private-enterprise concept, Washington has long refused loans to public companies...