Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barber's Boy. Jimmy was born Feb. 10, 1893, on Manhattan's swarming Lower East Side, the youngest of three boys and a girl. His mother was a Neapolitan, and gave Jimmy her nose. His father, Barthelmeo was a French-Italian barber. As his father's helper, Jimmy lathered the faces of many a Tammany politician. He quit school around the seventh grade, ran errands, worked as a glasswasher, photo-engraver, took piano lessons. At 17 Jimmy got his first professional job as a pianist-in Diamond Tony's saloon at "Cooney Island." The skinny, homely...
...King suddenly visited Naples. Street crowds ganged around his open car, cheered him lustily, made many wonder whether his appeal to the masses of Italy had been underestimated. Next day, on the 28th anniversary of Italy's armistice with Austria in World War I, some 2,000 Neapolitan students chanted "Away with the King!", cheered speakers who denounced the monarchy's ties to Fascism. Still unanswered was the large question: Could Vittorio Emanuele III keep his crown...
...back we ran, thanking our stars for our steel helmets and casting contemptuous glances out toward the Neapolitan plain, where puny bombs and shells still were bursting. It seems we still have a lot to learn about destructive forces...
...operatic night in Brooklyn when blood suddenly spurted in Enrico Caruso's throat and his career was at an end. But last week, as the United Nations took Naples, hosts of people older than Gloria Caruso could vividly recall the man who was not merely the most famous Neapolitan of recent times, but also a world figure of the first magnitude...
Enrico Caruso made his dazzling international reputation in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. The son of a wine-swilling Neapolitan mechanic, he started as one of the many bush-league Italian tenors of the '90s with a voice so deep that he was accused of being a baritone. Not for several years did he discover his golden tenor range and enormous volume. And even with these assets, his Metropolitan debut in 1903 was no smash. Critics found his acting inferior and his vocal style coarser than that of his great, aristocratic predecessor, Jean de Reszke...