Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman Lodge -a conservative Republican-greeted his well-wishers like a matinee idol, which in tact he had once been. Before entering politics he had appeared in 18 movies, was Marlene Dietrich's leading man in a 1934 picture called The Scarlet Empress. Beside him stood his pretty, Italian-born wife, Francesca Braggiotti Lodge, onetime dancer, whose singing of Italian songs in Bridgeport's Italian quarter had helped her husband in his races for Congress...
...kept busy last week entertaining delegates to the fifth annual conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Business and Professional Women's Club poured tea in a villa where according to legend Giovanni Boccaccio met one of the voluptuous heroines of his Decameron. An Italian movie company held a special screening of an animated cartoon called The Rose of Baghdad, which allegedly had been inspired by the work of UNESCO. No one was quite sure what Boccaccio or Baghdad had to do with the organization's work; but then...
...village of Nomadelphia, near the northern Italian city of Modena, has a population of about 1,000-mostly children. When anyone there wants food, clothing or cigarettes, he takes what he likes from the common supply. When anyone wants money for dealings with the outside world, he draws it from the common cash box. Says Don Zeno Saltini, "We have no locks. We live according to the Christian principle of ask and you shall receive...
Michael Dennison is only acceptable in his part as a young English composer, married, who becomes enamoured of the Italian girl who succors him when he is shot down in the war. But the two women far outshine him. Valentine Corneas, as his benefactress, is believable, save when her lines do not allow; and Dulcie Gray, as his wife, does fairly by her necessarily third-rate part. No one, however, actually creates a character that could stand apart on its own strength...
...things, one of lesser, one of greater importance make this movie unusual. First, the photography: ranging from England to the Italian Alps to Rome, the camera picks up some beautiful and spectacular backgrounds for its central shots. Second, the music: Tito Gobbi's excellent baritone voice alone would make the picture worth attending. And Elena Rizzerieria, who joins Gobbi in singing the "Glass Mountain," the operatic composition from which the picture gets its name, also has a fine voice. With these two "The Glass Mountain" is good entertainment...