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...enough to ring true. It asks playgoers to believe that a thirtyish Madison Avenue copywriter (Elizabeth Allen) is making her first gaga-eyed trip to Venice. And it compounds disbelief by imagining this girl to be psychologically numb-struck and emotionally unhinged upon discovering that her Italian vacation lover (Sergio Franchi) is married. She cries when the curtain goes up, and she cries when the curtain goes down, and there is plenty to be sad about in between...
...include a new title of praise for the Virgin, such as "Mediatrix" between man and God. Some Latin American prelates warned that current excesses of devotion to Mary were a scandal to those outside the church and tended to obscure Christ's unique mediation with God. Mexican Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo dryly pointed out that if Mary were to be titled "Mother of the Church," which is the mother of men, she becomes everybody's grandmother. And Augustin Cardinal Bea, of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, argued that any title implying a new Marian doctrine would...
Moderator of the discussion will be Jack Ludwig, novelist and critic, and panel members will include Denis Donoghue, University College, Dublin; Sergio Perosa, University of Venice; and Constantine Trypanis, Oxford University...
MEREDITH WILLSON VARIETY SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The first of three specials produced by the Music Man himself, this one features Caterina Valente, Sergio Franchi, Willson and his wife...
Everywhere he goes, fans are all over him. In Vegas, women slipped him notes containing their room numbers and other meaningful data. But Sergio is a family man, with a wife and two children living in London, and he threw all the notes away. He can reach high C without effort, but he contorts his face, whites his knuckles, and sobs a little to let the fans know that he is hitting a home run. Sometimes he misses on purpose, making his upper register sound like a row of tuberculous frogs. The audience dies for him. But he gamely tries...