11 MAY 1956, Page 7

THE STARS in their courses may 'dominate the public press

but they do not necessarily command the public purse. A gala charity performance of one of the films of Miss Gina Lollo- brigida, attended by the young lady herself, was recently put on in Zurich to help the population of Southern Italy to repair the damage done in last winter's catastrophic storms. Miss Lollo- brigida afterwards declared that nowhere in Europe had she been so enthusiastically received as she was by the distin- guished and opulent crowd of 1,300 people. The sponsors of ,the occasion could hardly wait to assess the contents of the collection boxes. When they were opened, the sum total of the donations was 34 francs, 82 centimes. THAROS