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Europe has grown used to having the U.S. copy its fashions. But Manhattan's Henry Rosenfeld, the shopgirl's Jacques Fath, last week turned the tables. He signed a deal with Count Aldo Borletti, Italian clothing manufacturer and owner of a 50-store department-store chain, to sell him 500 models a year to copy. Borletti, who figured he could sell $2,000,000 a year of Rosenfeld styles the first year, agreed to pay Rosenfeld some $50,000 for copying rights, plus royalties up to 10% on all dresses sold...
...cast are Jean-Pierre Barricelli '45 2G, Aldo S. Bernardo 2G, Anthony A. Giarraputo '50, Herving Madruga '52, Charles Fleischauer, Salvatore P. Busalacchi '49, Mary Danaro, Radcliffe '48, and Catherine Iaconi...
...Italian movies go, "To Live in Peace" is good but definitely not up to the pace set by "Open City" or "Shoe Shine." Aldo Fabrizzi is magnificent as the perplexed villager who doesn't know what to do with two escaped American prisoners of war, and there are some beautifully directed scenes. The weak link in the structure is the ending, which is forced and sentimental, entirely without the natural power of other Italian products...
...acting is superb. Aldo Fabrizi, who plays the part of the farmer, brings to his part the sublety and delicate shading of real understanding which he previously demonstrated in Open City, and the rest of the cast are equally appealing. The handling of Joe, the Negro soldier, is particularly interesting: the natives frankly treat him as something of a freak and are quite unabashed in so stating. Yet beneath their curiosity, lies a genuine respect which permits Joe to attain individuality and equality seldom before accorded a Negro on the screen...
...first reels describe the sweet upland bedlam of hens and houseflies, pigs and children in which Uncle Tigna (superbly acted by Aldo Fabrizi, the priest in Open City) lives. He indulges his nagging wife as if she were a pet horsefly, sneaks supper to the children when they are being punished, stains his legs up to the knee treading his grapes, fusses more than the cow over a new calf...