Word: turin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moviemakers into a frenzy of activity which has put Italy second only to Hollywood as the major supplier of films to the U.S. and the world. On the 14 sound stages of Rome's Cine-città., Europe's biggest studio, and in smaller studios scattered from Turin to Palermo, Italy's 180 producers are shoot ing an alltime record of 120 films, ten more than last year. And for the first time they are ready to exploit the U.S. beach head opened by Open City into a big invasion of Hollywood's home market...
Rossini: William Tell (with Giuseppe Taddei, baritone, Mario Filippeschi, tenor, Rosanna Carteri, soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana of Turin, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 8 sides). A rousing version of a masterpiece too seldom performed (its last performance at the Metropolitan Opera was in 1931, and no tenors have looked strong enough to warrant its production there since). Filippeschi blasts out his killing high notes with plenty of steam. Recording : on the shrill side...
...made his name as a high-priced custom builder of auto bodies for Indian rajas, Persian shahs, etc. All such cars, no matter whether the chassis are Rolls-Royces, Alfa-Romeos, Fiats, etc., are usually known as "Farinas." Pudgy, nervous Designer Farina, who has 650 workers in his Turin plant, always looks as if he had just crawled out from under a car (as he usually has). Unlike most auto designers, who work with clay mockups, Farina works with sheet aluminum, which he hammers into shape on wooden frames. He is affectionately called by Nash "the world's greatest...
Separated: Palmiro Togliatti, 58, Italian Communist boss, and his motherly wife, Communist Senator Rita Montagnana, after 27 years of marriage. Last year when the Togliattis left their deluxe apartment on the left bank of the Tiber, Rita went to live in Turin with their son Aldo, 26, and Palmiro moved out to a smart suburban villa in Rome. Last week they got a legal separation, which, however, does not permit them to remarry. Rumor said Togliatti might get a divorce outside Italy. The other woman: his personal secretary, buxom Communist Deputy Leonilde lotti, 31, with whom he has been keeping...
...Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, the fifth victory in his current European tour, a third-round knockout of Belgium's Cyrille Delannoit; in Turin, Italy...