Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Group Theatre) came last week fresh from the vigorous, maturing pen of Playwright Clifford Odets to put up a convincing argument for plain speaking in the spoken drama, for the serious play as a good show. Its dozen scenes sketched the tragic story of a U. S.-Italian family caught in the toils of the prizefight business. Though it sometimes teetered on the brink of bathos, Author Odets' robust sincerity kept it from toppling over...
...veered neither left nor right. That Hollywood has improved the Odets technique is apparent in the swift mounting of scenes, the extravagance of dramatic energy in Golden Boy. That his experience in the cinema has not lessened his power as a playwright of the masses is equally apparent. The Italian family of the play might have been sketched from behind the portieres of its own flat...
...flights of unnatural rhetoric. Most idiomatic performers in Golden Boy were: Robert Lewis, as the flat-voiced, grasping fight promoter, Roman Bohnen, a typical shoestring manager, and Jules Garfield, recruited from the lead of Having Wonderful Time, as a wisecracking taxi driver. Despite the handicap of an unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent the summer in barn repertory preparing for her Broadway stage debut, was inappropriately cast as "a tramp from Newark," her fresh-faced...
High. Last week a 3,700 h.p. Alfa-Romeo Cant Zappata, with Italian Pilots Stoppani & Di Mauro, carrying 4.400 Ib. of pay load, rose to 29,344 ft. (over 5½ mi.) above Trieste-a record for seaplanes and additional support for the assertion of National Aeronautic Association's president. Charles Horner. that Italy leads the U. S. in aviation "by a substantial margin...
...Pontifical University, founded as an institution of higher learning for Italian men, cost $500,000 of the Pope's private funds. He inspected its big halls, was helped to a throne before a waiting audience of cardinals and prelates. There, Pius XI spoke briefly, telling prospective students: "You are the real hope of the Church and the glory...