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...that "newspapermen are checking the tip that one of the complainants against the Stork Club (and her husband) helped incite and participated in the Paul Robeson-Peekskill riots." Then he reported that in 1935 Josephine had declared: "I am willing to recruit a Negro army to help Italy" in Mussolini's war on Ethiopia...
Adler's skulduggery and Germany's setbacks look like cause & effect. Since he also plays the real Hitler, Actor Adler* makes the impersonations look plausible; he shows his versatility in brief imitations of Mussolini, Haile Selassie and Chamberlain. But The Magic Face, full of logical kinks and lurid banalities, hangs together no better as fiction than fact...
...Sandrino's twisted personal behavior hovers a political fantasy: that Fascism will make a comeback in Italy. To hurry X-day along, he signs over Virginia's remaining lire to some underworld sharpies. For a receipt they give him a bit of black cloth, purportedly from Mussolini's death shirt, soon leave him holding...
Ever since Mussolini's troops marched over his tiny kingdom of Albania, former King Zog, like many another D.P., has been looking for a place to put down roots. Last week he found just what he wanted: a 60-room mansion bordered with a half mile of rhododendron bushes, plus 100-odd acres of rich farm land, on Long Island. It was a barter deal, reported the New York Times. Short on cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King...
Filmed among the neoclassic marble buildings built by Mussolini for a world's fair that never came off, Nerone centers on two sightseeing U.S. sailors who are knocked unconscious by thugs, carried back to a dream world of Nero's Rome. For the rest of the picture they caper happily through bosomy bedroom scenes, run afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini...