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Present to hear this challenge to Christian Democratic Premier De Gasperi was Luigi Longo, Italian Communism's unofficial minister of war. As 32 of his well-organized partisan brigades paraded, he remarked tersely that this was "a solemn warning to those who need...
...Luigi ("The Cock") Longo, who holds the party portfolio for war, is a more traditional type of Communist, a sullen man with deep sunken eyes and a tight, twisted mouth. He commanded Italy's Communist Partisans during World War II. Allied intelligence as well as Italian officials estimate his potential underground army (armed with weapons seized from the Germans) to be 150,000 strong, which is as large as the army allowed the Italian state under the peace treaty...
...Italians, Ford was no anachronism. Said Bricklayer Luigi Breschi: "If all owners had poured back the profits in their company like Ford, there would be no need for nationalization." Socialist Leader Giuseppe Saragat warned, through his paper: "Ford loved birds, and built for them an immense natural park-foreign birds wanted none of his artificial freedoms, and flew...
Individual performances within the twisted framework of the plot were comparatively satisfactory. Gino Cervi as Mozart looked and acted the abstract conception of the composer, and Luigi Pavese as his father was adequately Deutsch. Italian actresses, unfortunately, do not seem to fill the bill of love interest: Conchita Montenegro as Aloysia would be enough to frighten Eric von Stroheim...
...musical excellence of Goldovsky's effort also suffered somewhat from the mediocrity of several of his singers. Robert Gay and Francis Barnard in the leading male roles of the Count and Figaro, respectively, lacked both the force and training essential to good Mozartean baritones. Luigi Vellucci, however, surprised with superb performances in two roles, the comic ones of Basilio and Curzio...