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Upgraded Genius. With dollar success, the moviemakers lost some of the advantages of their pinchpenny early days. Silvana Mangano, who got $800 for her scenic rice-picking, now commands $32,000 a picture, while Italy's top star, Anna Magnani (Open City, The Miracle), commands $96,000. But Italian producers are still able to turn out a film for as little as $112,000, less than a tenth of Hollywood's average budget. In Italy's castle-crowded, ruin-laden countryside, they need build few sets. In a nation which talks with its eyes and hands, they...
...combed through the composer's entire output to find six representative operas. He chose Armida (composed in 1817), Il Conte Ory (1828), Tancredi (1813), La Scala di Seta (1812), La Pietra del Paragone (1812) and William Tell (1829). Florence critics relished all of them, singled out the "scenic and choreographic spectacle" of Armida, hailed Ory as the "first musical comedy of the 19th century," called La Pietra "second only to The Barber of Seville." But the lid came off for Tell...
Aldo Tonti's camera work is especially impressive. Besides selecting the most scenic views of the river and fields, Tonti worked very closely with director Alebrto Latuado, reporting the mood of the action in the composition and contrast of each shot. His delicate photographs of the lined, emotive peasant faces make effective close...
...thousand feet below, terrace on terrace, lay the storybook village of Grindelwald, famed as a skier's paradise. The girl whose level, blue-grey eyes surveyed this prospect may or may not have been awed by the majesty of the view. What she said was reverent, appreciative, American: "Scenic as hell!" Last week her interest in the Grindel-wald view was more technical than esthetic. She was looking at a slalom course: a series of precipitous pitches and inclines, outlined by guide poles, designed to test the racing mettle of the world's best skiers...
...Treasury Building on Manhattan's Wall Street, Alexander Hamilton, president of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and great-great-grandson of the first Secretary of the Treasury, awarded General U. S. Grant III the society's George McAneny Medal for his work in preserving historical landmarks...