Word: pietro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a large and complex undertaking could hardly hope to have the extraordinary intensity of shorter, more single-focused films like San Pietro and Tarawa. But it is made, all the same, with force and fervor and intelligence. It is the richest single record of the war and one of its greatest pictures...
...fusion with the Communist Party was Italy's No. 1 Socialist, Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, elegant in dapper grey trousers and an ivory-toned monogrammed shirt. Cried he: "Any policy not based on unity of the working classes will gradually lead our country and our party to slip from a revolutionary position to that of mere reform. . . . We are today 700,000 Socialists. When we shall have united with the Communists and formed a new unified party, we must not, however, renounce our Socialism. . . . Perhaps two generations from now differences between Socialists and Communists will have disappeared...
When the vote was announced, 70% of the delegates were for fusion. But now that he had the profusion majority vote in his pocket, shrewd Pietro Nenni remarked that there was really no hurry about fusion, that Socialists must first make sure that the Communists would not swallow them...
...Stocky Pietro Mascagni tried 14 times to repeat his success. (Shrewish Signora Mascagni, a peasant girl wrapped in furs on the profits of Cavalleria, jealously selected the casts of all 15). But the audiences that cheered and wept over Cavalleria booed and hissed its pedantic successors...
Tribute & Applause. The Fascists did their best to make a great musician of Pietro Mascagni, and he cooperated. In 1926, he was appointed Arturo Toscanini's successor as director of Milan's La Scala. He obliged by composing a Hymn of Labor. The obedient Fascist press hailed his 1935 opera Nero, a musical tribute to Mussolini's Italy, but it flopped anyway...