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...rice fields). Bitter Rice turned out to be a brilliant showcase for the tightly clad, womanly figure of Silvana Mangano, who helped make the picture the biggest-grossing foreign-language film ever shown in the U.S. Now the Italians have made a picture entitled Sensuality, starring Newcomer Eleonora Rossi-Drago, with which they expect to clean up in the U.S.-if it gets by the censors...
Rossini: William Tell (with Giuseppe Taddei, baritone, Mario Filippeschi, tenor, Rosanna Carteri, soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana of Turin, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 8 sides). A rousing version of a masterpiece too seldom performed (its last performance at the Metropolitan Opera was in 1931, and no tenors have looked strong enough to warrant its production there since). Filippeschi blasts out his killing high notes with plenty of steam. Recording : on the shrill side...
Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni had the biggest personal triumph, mesmerized the audience with his singing and acting as the Swiss hero: when he fired his crossbow and the apple on his son's head split with a stage-trick snap, there was a loud and relieved cheer...
...with a rare feeling for the depression years. Some other standout pieces: a story about an Italian P.W. in a U.S. hospital, by Giuseppe (The Brigand) Berto; a grisly novelette about a tubercular who marries to escape a domineering mama, by the 21-year-old French prodigy, Jean-Baptiste Rossi; a lively critical comparison of Mickey Spillane and Georges Simenon by Charles Rolo. If half the 110,000 copies of New World Writing are sold, the publishers will break even. Apparently, they are optimistic, for another issue is scheduled for fall. The idea is a good one; with a little...
...Three Lives, by Herbert Philbrick. Fascinating play-by-play account of Author Philbrick's nine years as an FBI counterspy in the Communist Party and some of its fronts (TIME, Feb. 11). Awakening, by Jean-Baptiste Rossi...