Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi, where he had come to chat with Italian embassy officials, chubby Charmer Roberto Rossellini was restive: "I am fed up. I feel like murdering newsmen." Told that the Indian government had granted a passport to his scriptwriter and fast friend, Sonali Das Gupta, he said he planned to stay on in India for the present. In Paris, apparently unmoved by the news, his wife Ingrid Bergman had a happy, tearful reunion with pretty, 18-year-old Jennie Ann, her daughter by Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Ingrid showed the wide-eyed girl the Lido, the Louvre and Versailles, lost her temper...
...Dutch critics believe that no Italian singer can surpass light-timbred Dramatic Soprano Gre Brouwenstijn, 41, as an interpreter of Verdi. She was a rising star in Dutch radio and opera just before the war but did not get her big chance until 1946, when The Netherlands Opera signed her. She made her reputation in // Tro-vatore, Jenufa, branched into Wagnerian opera at Bayreuth with resounding success, is currently one of the busiest stars on this summer's festival circuit...
...Soprano Eugenia Ratti, 22, is the youngest of the current crop of Italian stars. The shapely daughter of a Genoa streetcar conductor, she joined La Scala three years ago, displayed a talent for the soubrette roles of Rossini and Donizetti and has moved some critics to predict that she will surpass Callas both as actress and singer. Her diction is flawless, her voice cool and clear as crystal. Her artistic ideal is Callas, but she has a reservation: "I still have a heart, Callas...
...terms were surprising because only a few months ago Iran demanded a 75-25 profit split from interested Italian investors v. the 50-50 split that is general in the Middle East. Parliament was preparing to write the new terms into law when the Shah intervened. Realizing that the new terms would discourage foreign money and know-how, he put his weight behind a new, more liberal law containing a 50-50 provision, plus other favorable provisions for foreign investors, e.g., a liberal write-off of expenses before profits are figured...
...changed since the xenophobic days of Premier Mossadegh is a provision allowing the Shah and NIOC to negotiate directly with foreign firms without the preliminary wrangling in the Majlis that discouraged many a prospective investor in the past. With the new law several U.S. oil firms, plus Japanese and Italian companies, are expected to try their luck soon in Iran's oil-promising interior...