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Truncheons & Cold Water. Act II opened some 48 hours later, at midnight, when Rome's first serious general strike since 1922 began. Key demands of the Communist-dominated Chamber of Labor: 10 billion lire ($16,500,000) for public works and Christmas gratuities to aid Rome's 70,000 unemployed. Actually, Government plans already called for almost 10½-billion lire for public works; the Reds professed not to believe this...
Last week in Rome, the cellos that Vittorio Abbati bent to were no longer imaginary. He had spent 200,000 lire (about $560) to hire a hall and the Rome Opera House Orchestra to play in it. The orchestra management, touched by Abbati's earnestness, even knocked down the price. Included in his program: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri, the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Said he: "I closed my eyes and there was my orchestra, the same one as at home. The music just flowed. Then I opened...
...dollar, you can see Flicka, Smoky, and Thunderhead at the Boston Garden this afternoon. For free, over at Franklin Park, where lire Varsity cross country team matches strides with Rhode Island State and B. U., you can see Bob Black, Manuel Caetano and half a dozen other R. I. S. Rams who have been known to run much faster than the above-listed nags...
...Lire with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell and Irene Dunne (TIME...
...American standards, Shoeshine was made on a shoestring: 31 million lire ($138,000). (Open City cost only $100,000.) But it was a long, hard scrimmage in the making. Neither Producer Paolo W. Tamburella (who thought up the idea), nor Director Vittorio De Sica, nor Sergio Amidei (who wrote Open City) and his three fellow writers are exactly yes-men. Finding the right actors and getting fine performances out of young amateurs-they were all shoeshine boys-was no small job in itself. And there were plenty of subsidiary difficulties. (When Allied authorities forbade G.I.s to act in the film...