Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civic Opera House, applause still caressing her ears. She fluttered straight into an ambush party of eight process servers, who were there to tag her with summonses in breach-of-contract suits brought against her by a Manhattan lawyer. Windmilling in outrage and trilling furiously in English and Italian, Grand Diva Callas erupted: "Get your hands off me! Don't touch me, don't touch me! Chicago will be sorry for this!" As the servers, aghast at having a tigress by the tail, retreated, La Callas, cheered on by theater employees and fans, bared her fangs...
Born. To Orson Welles, 40, roly-poly jack-of-all-theatrical-trades, and Paola Mori, 25, Italian cinemactress: their first child, a daughter (his third). Name: Beatrice Giuditta. Weight...
Frisky (Titanus; D.C.A.) proves that the Italian moviemakers are no better at doing sequels than Hollywood. Bread, Love and Dreams was a pleasant little comedy that got its fireworks from the incendiary performance of Gina Lollobrigida as she scattered sex and devastation through the streets of an Abruzzi village, and in the manly breasts of Policeman Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Risso. Frisky assembles all of the old cast and most of the old plot for another run-through. But this time the razor edge of comedy has dulled: Gina's rowdiness is strident, De Sica's amorous...
...performance of two Baroque flute sonatas with the accompaniment of a harpsichord, played nicely by Sy Hayden. Flautist Eric Herz overcame some nervousness at the beginning of a sonata by Loeillet and went on to play Bach's Sonata in G minor with assurance. The work is a typical Italian trio-sonata structure enriched by Bach's genius...
...execution of a faintly satirical, quasi-serious discussion which the authors of current Holiday articles would do well to read. Silone's contribution, clearly the most informal of the collection, takes the form of an interview. He remains confused about basic questions surrounding an earthquake tragedy in his native Italian village. "What is the sense of accumulating new experiences if one has not grasped facts as primary as that?" he asks. Silone concludes that it is "the true artist's duty to share the sufferings of the men of his time. These are the surest indications...