Word: mario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crooner Frank Sinatra, separated from his wife, flew to Spain, and presented Cinemactress Ava Gardner with a $10,000 emerald necklace. Meanwhile, one Mario Cabre, 34, a part-time actor, verse-writer and bullfighter who is playing in a picture with Ava, assured reporters that he loved Ava and she loved him, too. He even tossed off some verses to her. Sample...
...Mario also told reporters: "After Sinatra's visit is over and Ava and I are alone again, I think you will find that our love has survived . . ." Then he added: "Of course, it depends on so many things . . ." Sinatra said of Ava: "A terrific girl." Ava said of Frankie: "A wonderful guy," but added demurely: "It's too soon to talk about marriage-Frank hasn't even got a divorce...
...Mario's Caprice Restaurant in London's fashionable West End, a guest last week could choose from a menu of caviar, turtle soup, sole bonne femme, roast duck with wine sauce and pineapple, whole baby chickens fried in butter with mushrooms, asparagus in butter sauce, feathery soufflés aflame with brandy, strawberries, peaches in kirsch, crêpes suzette en liqueurs, petits fours. "And," said Mario, "you can have it all if you like." To encourage the dollar tourist trade, Britain's government had lifted the wartime limit of five shillings (70? U.S.) per meal...
Verdi: Falstaff (Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Saturno Meletti, baritone; Emilio Renzi, tenor; Gino Del Signore, tenor; Giuseppe Nessi, tenor; Cristiano Dalla Mangas, bass; Rosanna Carteri, soprano; Lina Pagliughi, soprano; Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano; Amalia Pini, mezzo-soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). This is a slightly different Falstaff from the one NBC listeners have just heard from Arturo Toscanini (TIME, April 10). Orchestrally, it lacks the carefulness and cleanness of Toscanini's performance, and Conductor Rossi allows his singers, all excellent, more swagger and sway. But stylistically...
...week's end the Cominform's offensive seemed well slowed down. "Western democracy," commented Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is proving efficient." But Mario Scelba knew that it was probably only the first, probing phase of igso's big Red push...