Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although his English has not yet advanced much beyond "O.K.," Perlea speaks four other languages and has no trouble at all talking to the Met musicians. "The strings and woodwinds-German: the brass-Italian: and what's left -French." He is enthusiastic about the quality of the orchestra, says it would take La Scala's orchestra six rehearsals to accomplish what the Met's can do in two. As for the rest: "Every opera performance is a compromise. If you can accomplish 15% of what you intend, you are all right; if you accomplish...
Nighttime Nibble. Two months ago while 2,000 hand-picked carabinieri scoured Sicily's wind-whipped hills in a vain search for Giuliano, Meldolesi hinted to Italian editors that the celebrated "Robin Hood of Sicily" had invited him to his hideout. Only Editor Edilio Rusconi of Milan's weekly Oggi (Today) fell for Meldolesi's story. Rusconi assigned a top reporter to work with him, paid 800,000 lire (about $1,300) for the promised beat...
Hollywood will wait until March to award its Oscars for the movies' brightest achievements of 1949, but last week critical kibitzers everywhere had loosed their own showers of laurels. Two of the weightiest forums reached major agreement on one picture: Italian Director Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief won the National Board of Review's blessing as the year's best film, and the vote of the New York Film Critics as the best foreign-language movie...
Prince of Foxes (20th Century-Fox] is probably Hollywood's most ambitious attempt to exploit actual locations. To recreate the look of Renaissance Italy, veteran Director Henry King & company spent six months and $4,500,000 (about half of it in the studio's frozen Italian lire). They fanned out to 14 Italian cities and towns and to the tiny mountain republic of San Marino, which 20th Century-Fox rented, complete with population, at $40 a day. No expense or trouble was spared; to help create a 15th Century view of the domes and canals of Venice...
...conditioned reflex, experienced moviegoers may accept Tyrone Power as a dashing example of Renaissance Man. But Wanda Hendrix, ludicrously miscast as an Italian noblewoman, looks like a bobby-soxer lost in an art museum. As her guardian-husband, Aylmer is still playing Polonius with all the sententiousness and none of the wit. Welles, in his own freehand style, out-borgias Borgia. Even as capable an actor as Everett Sloane plays a scoundrel to excess...