Word: silvestri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adventures themselves retain the timeless quality of myth: the gigantic Cyclops is chillingly acted by Umberto Silvestri, and his howls of frenzy at the loss of his eye are enough to shatter cliffs; the immortal and immoral Circe (also played by Silvana Mangano) can call up tempests or turn men into porkers with equal ease. The screen writers have added one imaginative touch to the incident of the Sirens' rock: as his galley is rowed past that bone-littered shore. Ulysses, bound to the mainmast, is driven to frantic despair by the pleading voices of his wife...
...Violinist & the Pastry Cook. Two of the biggest are Chicago's Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co., which made the dolls for Lord & Taylor (opposite), and Manhattan's Staples-Smith Inc., which designed the Nativity scene for Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Between them, the two companies gross well over $2,000,000 a year, serve nearly 100 stores around the U.S. Silvestri specializes in composition mechanical dolls that cost up to $1,150 apiece ($18,000 for a complete set of 60) and can be dressed up to resemble a Viennese violinist or a French pastry cook...