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...have between you and your audience is your concentration," said Carroll Baker. So, concentrating mightily her first day on the set of Harold Robbins' sexaggerated The Carpetbaggers, Actress Baker, 32, emerged buff from the bath and slithered to her vanity table. Playing the role of Hollywood Goddess Rina Marlowe, Carroll felt only a bit unnatural au naturel during the scene's eight takes. Said she: "Nobody made any jokes. Everybody behaved just beautifully." Everybody in this case included a censor who will be on the set full time so as not to miss anything that he might want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 5, 1963 | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...Interest. The son of a carabiniere sergeant, Giambattista Giuffrè, now a bald, bouncy 56, began as a bank clerk and simple family man. Then he branched out. He took a mistress, buxom Rina Bianchini, setting up her cuckolded husband in the haberdashery business. Two years ago, when the husband killed himself, Giuffrè married Rina. During the years he lived in sin with her, Giuffrè served as lay administrator of several Franciscan monasteries. At World War II's end, when money began to flow in Italy again, Bank Clerk Giuffrè set out to go the banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Generous Lender | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...Washington Square, $250,000 damages. Mr. Arndt Stein huffed .hat Actor Power portrayed him not only as a coward, weakling and swindler, but as a faithless husband to boot. If Nicky gets his nick, it will be the deepest cut in Hollywood's hide since Russian Princess [rina Alexandrovna Youssoupov, whose Brother helped murder Rasputin, got an estimated $750,000 from M-G-M because a "Princess Natasha" was shown being assaulted by the Mad Monk in Rasputin and the Empress six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nicky's Nick | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Modern Zionist dancers have long studied and imitated the traditional dances of the Yemenite Jews. Prominent among these Zionist dancers is Moscow-born Rina Nikova, former prima ballerina of Palestine's Tel Aviv Opera. While working in Palestine, Ballerina Nikova's interest in the Yemenite Jews became so absorbing that she spent months living in their villages learning their customs and dances at first hand. Upshot of her study was the formation in 1932 of a ballet troupe of seven dark-eyed, black-haired Yemenite girls. Because the girls sang as well as danced, she called her troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Palestinian Ballet | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...stage, saw him swell out his bosom, and open his mouth. They shut their eyes then, listened to melting outbursts rich in melody, sung in the approved Italian manner, lyrically, lovingly. They opened their eyes to see him lead on a little Italian child, ten-year-old Rina, his daughter. She played an accompaniment for him correctly, laboriously. They heard him sing again without distraction, heard him take perilous notes bravely, truly, cling to them fondly, heard pianissimos incredibly tender, applauded, many of them, shouted bravos, sat; others, mum, felt their praise unneeded to swell the confidence of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Optimus | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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