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...honor system: of 47 million Italians, only a million-odd admitted any taxable income at all; 730 admitted incomes over $16,000; only one lone Italian admitted making more than $320,000. His stated income: $704,000. "Which millionaire was it who told the truth?" asked one Milan newspaper, amid a nationwide chorus of cynical snorts and chuckles. With the persistence of Diogenes, newsmen finally identified the tower of honesty as Textile Manufacturer Gaetano Marzotto. Rome's // Tempo facetiously urged that statues "be erected to him and piazzas named in his honor...
...reputation at the Metropolitan Opera as a fine romantic tenor, if not a great one. But in tenor-impoverished Italy (most of the good ones have come to the U.S.), Conley is a hero. Ever since he bounced a ringing D flat above high C off the ceiling of Milan's La Scala in I Puritani three seasons ago, the Italians have hardly been able to get enough...
...critics overlooked a boggled high note in the first act, and poured compliments on Conley's singing-but not on his bandy-legged acting. Milan's Il Tempo: "Conley has again proved his excellent vocal technique, his facility in moving among the highest notes," but, added Rome's Il Tempo, "beside [Soprano Callas] he appeared more her page than her promised." L'ltalia found his high notes "bell-like and sure," but his movements "uncertain and indefinite." The Communist L'Unità snarled at his "atrocious pronunciation, insupportable to the Italian ear." But even...
Miracle in Milan (De Sica; Joseph Burstyn) is the freshest movie in years, a brilliant departure by Producer-Director Vittorio De Sica from the tragic realism of Italy's best postwar films, including his own Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief. Still deeply concerned with man's inhumanity to man, De Sica this time accents the positive ideal of human brotherhood in a warm,exhilarating, richly comic picture...
...film's style fits no convenient pigeonhole. De Sica calls Miracle in Milan a fable for grownups, a tale suspended midway between fantasy and reality. And in its wealth of visual ideas, its deft use of music, its passages of bitter-sweet humor, stylized playfulness and social satire, the picture recalls the best of Charlie Chaplin and Rene Clair. But it is also an original work of art, touched in its finest moments with the elusive magic of poetry...