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...When Samuel Tito Williams was arrested in 1947 for the bludgeon murder of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl, eleven of the arresting detectives were given $50 bonds by a grateful neighborhood association. Few, including the jury, paid any attention to Williams' claim that his confession came after he had been beaten with "a blackjack, a rubber hose and a club" and burned with "lighted cigarettes and cigars." Sentenced to death, Williams was held in jail for 16 years before a federal court of appeals ruled that his confession had been coerced. Since then he has been fighting...
...moved by his plea (I wonder how that went in the original Italian), or when he criticizes his servants for revealing the secret of his sanity: "You jeopardized your own position. After all, no madman, no jobs." The insulting backtalk between the Countess Matilde and her lover, Baron Tito Belcredi, provides an element of domestic comedy that lightens the whole play. (This may be harmful in the long run, since it makes us disbelieve the seriousness of Tito's death in the end. We've been led to believe that he deserves every insult he gets, and death is merely...
...nephew without managing to bring any life to their admittedly superficial parts, the supporting cast generally lives up to the star. Eileen Herlie plays the cynical or flamboyant side of Matilde especially well (she gets slightly weaker as the part becomes more melodramatic), and James Donald, as her lover Tito, imitates the lock-jaw aristocratic accent to perfection. As a bearded, bespectacled Doctor with a distinctly Viennese accent, David Hurst fulfills Pirandello's idea of a Freudian parody; any stereotyping should undoubtedly be blamed on the author rather than the actor. Even the four servants or counselors become distinct personalities...
...affair by attempting to sell one of his new poems." -"I have never considered myself a beauty," Elizabeth Taylor told a Ladies' Home Journal interviewer, who seemed understandably dubious. Well, then, who is beautiful? "Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Raquel Welch." Also Madame Jovanka Tito, the wife of Yugoslavia's President. "She has an inner vitality, an inner glow, great genuine charm and a beautiful smile, but she is an enormous woman -you could sit on her chest." As to how the Taylor beauty will survive the years, the lady herself had a prediction...
Some aspects of Tito's double-time retreat from liberalism have been reasonably popular, at least outside intellectual circles. In a country where the average annual wage is $1,000 and no one is supposed to earn more than $7,000, Tito's campaign against the "economic criminals" who in recent years have salted millions away in Swiss and West German banks has a certain appeal. The long-term danger is that when Tito leaves the scene, the levers of power will be in the hands of the new class of rigid party stalwarts and ideological dogmatists that...