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...squad was called out in Naples to quiet down a mutinous theater audience and remind Crooner Frank Sinatra that the show must go on. Billed to appear with his cinemactress wife Ava Gardner, Frankie had already left a matinee crowd grumbling by showing up without Ava (supposedly ailing in Milan). The excitable evening customers, who had paid $5 to $7.50 for their seats, hooted and hollered when Sinatra - still solo - walked off after singing one song. Police restored or der, persuaded him to finish...
...when the reviews came out, it began to look like the same old story. Most critics rapped the opera, and some were scathing. The critic of Rome's Il Tempo totted up demerits: "Music? Zero. Originality? Artistic taste? Zero." There was a minority of approvals, led by Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A vibrant success . . . Menotti is an artist of tradition, a most Italian artist." Said Menotti: "Well, the reviews weren't all good, but the good ones were real raves-the first I've gotten in Italy. I must admit it feels wonderful...
...Raboski to serve out his sentence. Neighbors in Northlake, including Chief Heck, pledged their homes to raise Raboski's $15,000 bail, drafted a clemency appeal to California's Governor Earl Warren. "We plan to do everything we can to stand back of him," said the Rev. Milan Swasko, pastor of the local Lutheran church. "This community can't afford to lose...
...slipped quietly into the city's artists' quarter and took over an empty studio. He wore the artist's standard beret and velvet jacket, filled his room with paints, brushes, canvas and easel. But the man was no artist. He was Guglielmo Emanuel, Rome correspondent of Milan's Corriere della Sera, and one of Italy's most renowned anti-fascist journalists. For years he had been in trouble with Mussolini's police; now with the Germans in power, they were looking for him again. Emanuel decided it was time for a disguise...
...Milan last week, courtly Guglielmo Emanuel celebrated his 74th birthday by holding his first art show. On the gallery walls were 49 delicately-colored scenes of Italy and Southern France that would have done a professional credit: airy, back-lighted town vistas, views of Venice and the Riviera, mountain terraces dipping into lush valleys, richly colored flower markets flooded with sunlight. The critics cheered Emanuel's taste, finesse and remarkable craftsmanship. Said one: "He really has the painter...