Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yemen. Temporarily in charge of the reform-minded Prince Badr (TIME, June 29) while his father, the gory Imam, is off in Rome. Chances are that when papa returns shortly, things will go from Badr to worse...
...several U.S. distributors had seen and sneered at. And Steve Reeves was just another refugee from California's Muscle Beach set who had tried Broadway and TV and even studied a little chiropractic before an Italian producer picked him up for Hercules. On a tip, Levine flew to Rome and looked at the picture. Says he: "It had action and sex, a near shipwreck, gorgeous women on an island and a guy tearing a goddam building apart. And where did you ever see a guy with a body like Reeves has?" Levine bought the picture for $120,000, dubbed...
When he was conducting his Third Symphony in Rome in 1934, Composer Sergei Prokofiev made a rare admission to a visiting musicologist. "This," said he, "is my best work, but only because The Flaming Angel is my greatest." Prokofiev had, in fact, lifted the Third Symphony almost entirely from The Flaming Angel -probably because he despaired of ever seeing his monumentally difficult opera produced. He never did: Flaming Angel had its first stage performance in Venice (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955) 2½ years after the composer's death. At Italy's Spoleto festival, which closed last week, Angel...
...Doria male line was broken last year with the death of Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphili-Landi, 71. The old prince was the only man in Rome who refused to put out a flag celebrating Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia, suffered 15 years' confinement under Mussolini, was Rome's first mayor after its liberation. He dreamed of opening his palace to the public, a task that his daughter, Princess Orietta, has now accomplished. Her husband, Britisher Frank Pogson, has traded his own name for Doria-Pamphili to carry on the noble line...
Died. Vittorio Podrecca, 76, creator of the Rome-based Piccoli puppet theater, a group of 800 sprightly marionettes (manipulated by 23 minutely trained humans) who parodied human behavior from bullfights to ballet, charmed European and U.S. audiences in their grand tours in the '30s; in Geneva...