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...Flag fluttering from Roviano's tower heralded the election victory of the Socialist-Communist bloc over landowners and shopkeepers. The Christian Democrats virtually threw the election away when their provincial leader, coming to a rally of the local party, swung into Roviano driving a long, sleek Alfa Romeo. Roviano's children, squealing with delight, climbed all over the strange vehicle, but the citizenry hooted its driver out of town. In Anticoli, a pretty young girl who was chief Communist organizer practically swung the election singlehanded when she shouted in a village square speech: "The landowners call us barbarians...
...retelling the famous Bible story of how David lusted after the beautiful Bathsheba (Pamela Kellino, Actor Mason's wife), seduced her, and then sent her husband Uriah to be killed in battle, Playwright Deval has altered the intense black-&-white of its morality to a sleek Gallic grey. His David is both an evildoer and a decent-minded worldling. Having wronged Uriah, he afterwards tries to set things as right as possible...
...hovers perpetually over any heiress has never left Lilibet. Since she was first able to blow a kiss from her cradle, Britain's cooing matchmakers have been at work on her. When the Princess took to nightclubbing, the speculation, abetted by trigger-fingered columnists, increased tenfold, until any sleek young lord seen dancing twice with Lilibet was a marked man. Since she seldom sits one out (she is a gifted and tireless dancer), the field was enormous. But during the last year it has narrowed to a single contestant: a well-scrubbed, curly-haired lieutenant of the Royal Navy...
Sidney didn't like the big sleek bands where the money was: the musicians were trying to outblow each other. In 1933 he gave up and opened a tailor shop. Then came the hot jazz "revival," and all of a sudden schoolkids who had never seen Sidney knew all about him, from hearing the old records. He shut up his tailor shop and started to play again-usually in small groups, including one of his own called the "New Orleans Feetwarmers." Unlike his friend "Satchelmouth" Armstrong, he refused to front for bigtime, second-rate bands...
...marry his girl friend (Arleen Whelan). Most of the plot complications center around Paulette's efforts to entice MacMurray back into her bed. The three sides of this triangle are more than reasonably heartless towards each other, but they are outdone in misbehavior by MacMurray's sleek companion (Macdonald Carey), who wants Miss Goddard for himself...