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...motion-picture format has detracted from certain aspects of the play, it has added to others. The backgrounds--particularly the cathedral and market-place of Siena and the Ca' D'Oro in Venico--are triumphantly beautiful, and the costuming is luxuriant. Although many of the interior tableaux are more reminiscent of the Flemish painters, the actors have been decked out after a rogue's gallery of Italian Renaissance portraits...
...famous balcony scene was shot in a dreamlike little garden of the sumptuous Ca' d'Oro in Venice; the ballroom scene, all cressets gleaming on dark wood and in bright eyes, was done in an apartment of that palace. On the Venetian cloister of San Francesco del Deserto, where some of the monastery sequences were made, the light falls slow and bright as dust from a celestial censer. The swordplay between Romeo and Tybalt flashes through Siena's gracious Piazza del Duomo. When Romeo in the last act beats with unavailing hands at the church door...
...designed by Frank Lloyd Wright will deface the architectural heritage in Venice [TIME, March 22], he surrenders to the principle which makes a city a museum piece and drains vitality from it ... Was the Palazzo Vendramini forbidden because, in style, it did not resemble the Ca d'Oro? Was the Church of Santa Maria della Salute forbidden because it did not resemble San Marco...
Loving. He married Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold), the wildcat daughter of Dominican Dictator Trujillo, and stayed married to her for five years. The Dictator, apparently impressed by this feat, made him a diplomat. Once established on the Continent, Rubi found ways of maintaining himself in expensive luxury. He had setbacks. The Germans threw him into a detention camp during World War II. Back in Paris in 1944 he was wounded in a mysterious street shooting. But Rubi was undismayed. He married French Actress Danielle Darrieux (a collector's item), and capped this by marrying Doris ("Richest Girl...
...Rubi" launched his career back in 1933 with a brief marriage to the spectacular Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of Dominican Dictator Rafael ("El Benefactor") Trujillo. Despite their divorce he was named chargé d'affaires in Paris in 1939, and went on to marry, successively, Actress Danielle Darrieux, sometimes called "the most beautiful woman in the world," and Doris Duke Cromwell, "the richest woman in the world." His job also led him to seeming affluence far beyond his official salary of $600 a month. Last week it came to a halt: Rubi got fired...