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...lusty, loudmouthed darling of Britain's music halls, 49-year-old Gracie Fields, was a near casualty of the war. When Gracie and her Italian husband, Monty Banks (Mario Bianco), quit England one jump ahead of the Luftwaffe in 1940, the British press and public hooted bitterly. It was only to save Monty, an enemy alien, from pokey, Gracie explained from...
There also is the Florence of Mario Fabiani, and he is the present. Fabiani is Florence's Communist mayor...
...story is less novel. Mario (Ricardo Montalban), son of a famed Mexican ex-matador (Fortunio Bonanova), has talent in the bull ring, but his heart is in his music. When all Mexico accuses him of cowardice, his twin sister Maria (Esther Williams) doubles for him and, in a slather of veronicas, saves his reputation. He returns the compliment by saving her life. After that he proceeds to the conservatory with father's blessing. Sister is happy with her young man (John Carroll), and everything ends in a fiesta. Blonde, blooming Esther Williams is about as Mexican as Harry Truman...
Interior Minister Mario Scelba (Christian Democrat) reported to his fellow assemblymen that, so far as the police could determine, the Sicilian shooting was nonpolitical. The valley in which it occurred was notoriously infested by bandits. Sicilian Communist Deputy Girolamo Licausi disagreed. He charged that the Maffia (Sicily's ancient, bloody secret society) had perpetrated the attack, in cahoots with monarchists and the rightist Uomo Qualunque Party...
...Lateran Pact. In Anticoli, Eugeni crowed cruelly, guffawed to speechless Don Vittorio: "Ha! Now you've got to work with me, just the way Togliatti has made De Gasperi work with him! Qui comando io!" In Roviano, wise old Scacchi said to his village priest, Don Mario Sargenti: "Now we must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into oblivion. Don Vittorio, the landowners and shopkeepers have all canceled their subscriptions to Rome's Christian...