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...Died. Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza), 38. golden-throated tenor who aspired to be a second Caruso but lacked the self-discipline to train his voice, went instead on a ten-year whirl of Hollywood, where he grossed $5,000,000 from films (The Great Caruso) and recordings (Be My Love, The Loveliest Night of the Year) that sold more than a million copies each, collected a mass of button-snatching fans who fed his conviction that his loud voice was a great one; of a heart attack; in Rome. Lanza quarreled capriciously with his Hollywood benefactors, was sued...
...most mystical terms, and there are many amateur Svengalis who, actually, know very little about what they are doing but are entranced with the notion that someone else is in their "power." In the wake of such books as DuMaurier's Trilby and Mann's Mario the Magician the idea that hypnotism is something supernatural had come to be a generally accepted fact...
...First Time (Corona; MGM) presents outsize Tenor Mario ("My voice is the greatest in the world") Lanza as an "unpredictable, erratic, self-centered" American singer who is chased by an overdressed, "publicity-loving" international party girl (Zsa Zsa Gabor). The casting is pluperfect, but most of the picture is a pretentious bore. The pre recorded songs seem unable to locate Lanza's lips, and some of the arias might even have been scraped off old Lanza sound tracks. The only new number, a "Jamaican rock 'n' roll" item called Pineapple Pickers, summons little of the old Mario...
...tenuous plot has the out-of-sorts singer brought to his senses by a pretty Viennese Fräulein, nicely played by German Actress Johanna von Koczian, in her American screen debut. She is the only woman on the Continent whom Mario can trust to love him for love alone. Reason: she is stone deaf. That is, until she has that operation, "dangerously close to the brain." If, like Johanna, moviegoers could keep their ears closed and their eyes open, they might enjoy Salzburg, Rome, Capri and Anacapri in fetching color. And by letting Zsa Zsa be Zsa Zsa, Director...
...Mario Prassinos' large (79 in. by 99 in.) Winter and Mathieu Mategot's Cosmorama (86 in. by 161 in.) would brighten any bare modern wall. Purists argue that translation from painted sketch to woven wool muffles the impact of the artist's intent. Certainly, tapestry has rarely been a medium for great art. But for works short of the greatest, tapestries have a disarming informality, and a richness of warp and weft that compensates for the loss of the immediacy that only the artist's brush can give...