Word: lamberto
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...gets a job which requires a bicycle. He pawns the family bedsheets to get his out of hock, loses it to a thief, and fails in a forlorn chase to get it back. For the central role, Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica hired a real workman: gaunt, sad-eyed Lamberto Maggiorani, 39, whose performance won international praise...
...story concerns a typical Italian unheroic hero: a vacillating, tortured, sour-faced working man (Lamberto Maggiorani) whose only talent is to attract misery. He and his small son (Enzo Staiola) spend a grey Sunday scouring Rome for the stolen bicycle that is necessary to the father's bill-posting job. Their thief-chasing Odyssey takes them through various institutions (soup kitchen, church, bordello, political meeting, fortuneteller's), supposed to inspire or comfort the miserable. After being treated as a bumbling nuisance at each of these havens, the hero tries unsuccessfully to steal a bicycle, and then tearfully walks...
...Duce and the Pope, however, last week negotiated a breathing spell for Catholic Action. After a series of conversations, President Lamberto Vignoli of Italian Catholic Action and Achille Starace, Fascist Party Secretary, reaffirmed an agreement made in 1931. By this deal, Catholic Action stays out of politics; its leaders may not be antiFascist. In return, the Party guarantees that no measures will be taken against its members who are also members of Catholic Action. In effect, reaffirmation of the deal served notice on Fascist Catholics that they must toe the party line-no matter what the Pope's views...
President Alvero Obregon of Mexico: "In Manhattan, a young man who gave his name as Lamberto Obregon and said, he was my nephew was haled into court as result of conducting an all night ukulele party. Occupants of the apartment house in which the party took place complained to the police because the young man and his companions (who included artists' models, dancers and students) conducted their melodious roisterings without cessation until 10 A. M.!" Jack Johnson, once heavyweight champion of the world: "For a year I have owed Max Mallin of Atlantic City $12.50 for housing...
...cast of the principal roles is as follows: Don Lamberto, Edgar Temple; Don Januario, J. K. Murray; Don Norberto, W. H. Clarke; Don Domingo, Lindsey Morrison and Stanley Felich; Mungo, Oscar Girard; Marie, Queen of Spain, Laura Millard; Fanchette, the actress, Clara Lane; Donna Antonia, Rose Leighton...