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Puccini: Turandot (Gina Cigna, soprano; Armando Giannotti, tenor; Luciano Neroni, basso; Francesco Merli, tenor; Magda Olivero, soprano; Afro Poli, baritone; EIAR Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Franco Ghione conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's last, but not best opera gets as good a performance as possible. Recording: good...
Next came Pierre Boero, Georges Neroni, Pierre Lambert. They had served in Joseph Darnand's Milice, had played minor roles in a major crime-the assassination of Georges Mandel, great Third Republican, bitter foe of fascism, who was kidnapped from a Paris prison, murdered in the Forest of Fontainebleau. They were acquitted of the murder, convicted of aiding the Germans. For Lambert, 20 years; for Boero and Neroni, death...
...play she is no longer real. Mr. Job reduced her to a bad caricature-foil for his heroine, Madeline Neroni. Made-line (Ina Claire), with her father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing...
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