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...famous balcony scene was shot in a dreamlike little garden of the sumptuous Ca' d'Oro in Venice; the ballroom scene, all cressets gleaming on dark wood and in bright eyes, was done in an apartment of that palace. On the Venetian cloister of San Francesco del Deserto, where some of the monastery sequences were made, the light falls slow and bright as dust from a celestial censer. The swordplay between Romeo and Tybalt flashes through Siena's gracious Piazza del Duomo. When Romeo in the last act beats with unavailing hands at the church door...
...Inspector Calls is a gay and roguish comedy, Always a Bride. Besides being very funny, with some wonderful character sketches, this is a fine recruiting film for the confidence game, representing the crooks engaged in it as particularly enchanting, and the life itself no mean whirl of the most sumptuous luxuries that the Riviera can offer, including the Monte Carlo jail with its beautiful sea-view and famous chef...
...scenery for both pieces is by Richard Kaplan. For Arcadia he showed imagination with a set of suggestive stick construction and stark blue-grey flats. The de Musset piece he tried to furnish with draperies and props that, supposed to be sumptuous, were merely shabby...
Died. Gerhard A. Puff, 40, German-born bank robber who made the FBI's Top Ten in 1952; of electrocution; in Sing Sing. Sentenced to the chair for killing an FBIman in a 1952 Manhattan gun fight, deadpan Gunman Puff ordered two of the most sumptuous "last meals" in Sing Sing history, had been visited by no one in his 14 months, 23 days in the death house...
Detroit's Rubens has been called the finest of his sketches to be seen in the U.S. He painted it originally as a study for a big, sumptuous tapestry. The classic grandeur Rubens intended is conveyed by the small study, but casually, which makes it all the more effective. The picture was one of 15 little gems of European art that hung in the Grosse Pointe home of Philanthropist Edgar B. Whitcomb and his wife until both died last year and bequeathed them to the Detroit Institute...