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Enter the Communists. Once a year, Trasteverini hold a Procession of the Madonna del Carmine; they have added to it an additional celebration called the Festa de Nojantri (The Feast of Us Others). Together the two occasions are good for at least two weeks of sports, drinking, feasting, beauty and wine-tippling contests, and a lively spate of knife fights...
...jury of selection had included only one Catholic: Jesuit Father John LaFarge, who acted as chairman. Few of the artists chosen were Catholics, either. Among them were such big names as Ivan Mestrovic-whose stilted but forceful Madonna and Child was perhaps the best sculpture in the show-and a number of accomplished craftsmen like Oronzio Maldarelli (TIME, Nov. 15). Henry Rox, who carves vegetables for a hobby, contributed a gaunt, convincingly adolescent Joan of Arc, and Helene Sardeau (Mrs. George Biddle) made the same saint look as if she had just been blackjacked...
Actor's Studio (Sun. 8:30 p.m., ABC Television). Première of Portrait of a Madonna by Tennessee Williams. Jessica Tandy plays the lead. Narrator: Marc Connelly...
...sculptor dressed his dukes in marble armor; at first glance, they look like Roman emperors. But their gentle, dreamy expressions and gestures are not a bit Roman. They seem powerless and wise, but not with earthly knowledge. Giuliano seems to be "held upright by the magic of the Madonna at whom he is looking." The Virgin, with the Child at her breast, sits at the center of the chapel's end wall. She is the focal point around which Michelangelo's half-classical and half-Christian little universe is clustered...
Sassetta on the Wall. I Tatti is more a court than a residence. At 83, Il Bibi still begins his day at 6, reading or writing or receiving visitors even before he has left his canopied bed. A fine Sassetta Madonna hangs on the wall. Each morning a vase of fresh flowers is brought to Berenson; and each morning his butler must warm his wrist watch to body temperature, lest Il Bibi jump when he straps...