Word: visas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 1951, the U.S. Embassy in Rome suggested to Italian Novelist Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia that he should pay a visit to the U.S., where his books are bestsellers. Moravia delightedly accepted the suggestion and filed his papers. Last May, the embassy announced that Moravia's visa had been denied because of a State Department ruling that he cannot qualify under the U.S. Internal Security (McCarran) Act. This action was part of the Administration's campaign to sabotage the act by administering it with ridiculous mock zeal...
Meanwhile, in Rome, Ingrid Bergman awaited the birth of twins while her husband waited to hear whether he would be granted a U.S. entrance visa to permit him a chance to answer, at first hand, Lindstrom's "calumnies." To a reporter, Actress Bergman complained: "I cannot understand why my former husband and myself cannot deal with problems involving [Pia] as grownups...
...calumnies." The judge gave the Italian director until June 20 or until all the case's evidence is in (whichever is later) to come to the U.S. and speak his piece. Rossellini's only problem now is persuading U.S. immigration officials to give him an entrance visa...
...ranked him ahead of Schnabel, Backhaus and Serkin. For the time being, at least, U.S. Beethoven fans will have to appraise his works from recordings. Like his fellow German pianist, Walter Gieseking, Kempff chose to go on playing in Germany under Hitler, now seems disinclined to risk McCarran Act visa difficulties, and the kind of uproar that sent Gieseking home in 1949. He has recorded most of the Beethoven sonatas in the past (for Polydor), but the Decca disks are new and marked by lustrous tone and silent surfaces. Kempff plays with splendid seriousness in the diabolical Hammerklavier, delivers such...
...following this episode, Kazan had further experience with the fear that Communist secrecy had brought-to his field. George Tabouris, author of Kazan's recent Broadway production. "Flight Into Egypt," was almost denied a visa to the United States...