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...movies. Frank Sinatra is currently in more demand than any other performer. His portrayal of Private Maggio in From Here to Eternity, which won him an Academy Award last year, burst on the public a new and fiercely burning star. To the amazement of millions, the boudoir johnny with the lotion tones stood revealed as a naturalistic actor of narrow but deep-cutting talents. He played what he is, The Kid from Hoboken, but he played him with rage and tenderness and grace, and he glinted in the barrel of human trash as poetically as an empty...
Florence to Munich. Many festival cities are near saturation point. Last year Florence's 8,000 spare beds were entirely insufficient to handle the 600,000 out-of-towners who were in the city during the Maggio Musicale. Hardly any of the festivals show a profit (most of them are subsidized), but tradespeople consider them fine for cashing in on the tourist dollar. This summer 600,000 U.S. visitors are expected in Europe. The more dedicated festivalgoers have written for tickets a year or so in advance, but travel agencies still book a symphony concert as handily...
...season was off to a running start this month when Florence opened its 17th Maggio Musicale. Like most of the bigger festivals, it combined showy elegance with serious endeavor. Gaudiest attractions were operas with attractive melodies shaded by silly plots: Spontini's rarely performed Agnes von Hohenstaufen, Weber's Euryanthe and Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. Euryanthe was presented in its uncut version and the audience learned to appreciate the program note from a Weber contemporary: "This man writes for eternity and so his operas never end." Other festival events were concerts under Wilhelm Furtw...
Frank Sinatra does Private Maggio like nothing he has ever done before. His face wears the calm of a man who is completely sure of what he is doing as he plays it straight from Little Italy. And Ernest Borgnine is a Fatso hard to forget. He can smile and smile and be a villain, in a way to make the audience realize that it is in the presence of that perhaps not rarest of humankind, the perfectly normal monster...
...camera with easy familiarity, and with a cool simplicity that seems astonished by nothing but shows compassion for everything. Honolulu's Schofield Barracks (where much of the picture was actually filmed) becomes a large, stark frame for some memorable scenes, such as the rite of taps for Private Maggio, with the notes of martial mourning groping their way from stone to stone and from face to shadowy face...