Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From his "rest home" in Moscow came word that French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, partly paralyzed from a stroke two months ago, was able to walk a few steps without help. From Rome it was announced that Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, recovering from a brain operation, had boarded a train for Moscow and some of the same salubrious Soviet atmosphere...
...Rome, Pope Pius XII told an international pilgrimage of editors that films and television exercised "a unilateral influence ... on man, and more especially on youth, with its almost purely visual action carrying with it such a danger of intellectual degeneracy that one begins to consider it a danger for all people...
Bless You All (music & lyrics by Harold Rome; sketches by Arnold Auerbach; produced by Herman Levin and Oliver Smith) is sometimes pleasant but never for long. Virtually everyone connected with it has more to boast of than the show itself. It's brightly colored but badly tended; the whole thing needs weeding, even the better things need watering. It looks about as a Broadway revue should look-perhaps in New Haven-three weeks before it opens on Broadway...
Helen Tamiris' dances-and Valerie Bettis' dancing-are highly professional but not unusual. Harold Rome's music is uniformly unhaunting, but once or twice his lyrics are really bright-as in Little Things Meant So Much to Me, where a wife, in the process of bricking up her husband's body, itemizes the irritations that drove her to murder...
Died. Max Reiter, 45, Jewish refugee, from Italian Fascism, who in 1938 left a successful career as conductor on the Continent (Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan), came to the U.S. with only $40, within five years shaped the San Antonio Symphony into a major orchestra; of a heart attack; in San Antonio...