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Almost immediately, artists began drafting manifestoes denouncing the show as reactionary. Half the invited big names, including Painters Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli, Renzo Vespignani and Sculptor Marino Marini, flatly refused to exhibit, and 50 of them dispatched a violently worded protest. Their big objection: the Quadriennale, traditionally a show of contemporary art, was devoting entirely too much space to the works of the dead. Countered exhibit officials: "After so much modern art, the visitor needs a hall or two in which to rest. To reproach us for this is like reproaching an exhibition for having...
Vengeance, Fate, Evil. The betrothed of Manzoni's title are two young Italian peasants, Renzo and Lucia, who lived near Milan in the time of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). In the very choice of such a hero & heroine, Manzoni kicked over the elegant traces that had bound Italian writers to the creaky old chariot of classicism. Free of that dead weight, his story tears off on a wild, romantic ride...
...Renzo's marriage is forestalled by a dastardly nobleman who, all of a licker for Lucia, intimidates the village priest and tries to kidnap the proud young beauty. A friendly Capuchin spirits her through all his snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover...
...Head ("The Continental"; Capitol). "The Continental" is Renzo Cesana, intimate-patter man of TV (TIME, Nov. 5), who speaks these man-to-woman lines as if he were holding a glass of champagne in one hand and a swooning female in the other. Women will giggle, men guffaw...
...sing") and, finally, a heartbreaking good night as Cesana gazes deep and soulfully into his loved one's eyes and breathes: "I haven't any right to do the things I do." Cesana reached his goal of TV lover by the usual circuitous route. Jesuit-educated Renzo was precocious enough at 16 to have his first play produced by Roberto Rossellini. He reached the U.S. in 1934 as a writer-actor for MGM, which was then making a series of Italian-language films. He has spent the past 15 years in & out of radio, advertising and publicity...