Word: montenegro
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...amiable James Bruce, 54, vice president of the National Dairy Products Corp. Son of Maryland's onetime Democratic Senator, Princeton-mate of Navy Secretary James Forrestal, James Bruce was no trained diplomat. Aside from a short tour as assistant military attache in Rome, and as special representative in Montenegro for the Versailles peace conference, he had stuck to banking and finance...
Individual performances within the twisted framework of the plot were comparatively satisfactory. Gino Cervi as Mozart looked and acted the abstract conception of the composer, and Luigi Pavese as his father was adequately Deutsch. Italian actresses, unfortunately, do not seem to fill the bill of love interest: Conchita Montenegro as Aloysia would be enough to frighten Eric von Stroheim...
Also included were most of Mexico's many half-knowns: Goitia, Castellanos Tamayo, Meza, Montenegro, Cantu Galván, Charlot, Mérida, and the surrealist Frida Kahlo (Rivera's third wife). By & large they seemed suspiciously un-Mexican and disappointingly dull. Why didn't the "younger generation" of artists compare with Mexico's aging masters...
...saving their throne in the plebiscite next June. Italians had always snickered at little (5 ft. 3 in.) Vittorio Emanuele, cursed him for abetting Mussolini's war. They liked towering (6 ft.) Queen Elena well enough; but they could never quite forget that she was a foreigner from Montenegro (once famed for its brisk export trade in marriageable princesses). Playboy Crown Prince Umberto, though abler than his parents, would probably have to join Europe's swelling ranks of unemployed royalty. His son, the ten-year-old Prince of Naples, was the dynasty's last feeble hope...
...Yugoslavia would consist of six federated, autonomous districts (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Montenegro, Macedonia), each with its own local government, schools, customs...