Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the lines in English a few of the usually "dramatic" Italian phrases sound a bit peculiar. For example, the young maid has finished a long sorrowful song about her mistreatment by the bawdy Don, and her gallant suitor warbles "Ohhh, a piteee." These are the exceptions however and this fine presentation, like Cosi, is highly enjoyable...
...Janice Forester are contented with each other, their eleven-year-old daughter Polly and fate-that difficult headwaiter whom they have charmed into giving them the best table. Janice is a healthy model of housewifely efficiency. Tom is a grey flannel suitor of success who has $14,000 a year and the boss's ear to show for his efforts. His boss is a sexurbanite who keeps adding fresh blonde codicils to his own tattered, 30-year-old marriage contract. It is at the bottom of the boss's sunken garden that Tom meets Louise, an exotic fragment...
...unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled: "If you had looked at the weather map, you would have seen it was in the cards." In Brussels, comely Countess Alvina Van Limburg Stirum, 43, was asked about rumors that she will soon be engaged to the ex-suitor of Britain's Princess Margaret, Group Captain Peter Townsend, 41, an air attache at Britain's local embassy. Snorted she: "Absolute nonsense." Seconded Townsend: "Complete nonsense." Added the countess: "I have a close sporting friendship with Captain Townsend." Back in England, meanwhile, Margaret's life seemed much the mixture...
...Venice Film Festival, is a beautifully designed Christmas card set to the music of the old English carol. The Twelve Days of Christmas. Placed in the sparkling snow of a Victorian London, the film recounts the wooing of Wendy Toye during the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany. Waggish Suitor David O'Brien arrives each morning with a pyramiding progression of flora, fauna and assorted humans that, within a fortnight, have jampacked Wendy's neat home with speckled cows, choirboys, colored doves, milkmaids, kings and pear trees. A pleasant, 22-minute short, the Twelfth Day will...
Showing utterly no signs of portliness, at 40, Group Captain Peter Townsend, R.A.F. exiled suitor of Princess Margaret, donned his racing togs before a news camera, hopped onto Ponthieu, the favorite in Deauville's big race for gentle men riders, came in 14th in a field of 29. But Airman Townsend needed police protection anyway from a horde of maids and matrons who charged upon him, panting with romantic admiration...