Word: luciana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardest assignment, and that they are less of an anathema than they are is a minor triumph. Top honors in the cast must go to the female sex; Wynn Murray, as Luce, is grand both in her songs and in her interpretation of comedy; Mary Wescott, as Luciana, is likeable though her voice is a bit thin compared to the others; supreme in looks and in singing is Muriel Angelus, as Adriana. Too much cannot be said in her praise, for her appearance is a delight to the eyes and her voice a treat to the ears. Betty Bruce, however...
...Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine had a theory all his own. To him the murder of Amberg and the assault on the Flegenheimer gang were plainly the outcroppings of a race war in the underworld-Italians v. Jews. Accordingly, he sent his men out to find Charles Luciana, called "Lucky" because he is one of the few men to survive a "ride." "Lucky" Luciana is a squint-eyed Latin who is supposed to run the Unione Siciliana, a society which has progressively usurped the privilege of catering to New York's night life. In their march of progress, reasoned...
...heman, personally he has traits barely infantile. When a girl at his Swiss boarding house repulses his torrid advances, in a pet he plants a dummy bomb under his bed to terrify the boarders, decamps for England. From anarchist lair to lair he jumps. In Paris he meets Luciana, who recognizes the star of fortune burning over his beetling brow. She becomes his mistress, mothers him and his destiny with incomparable tact...
During the War Hannibal and Luciana suddenly appear in Thalia. Hannibal starts a newspaper and, against all anarchistic precedent, begins to harang Thalians to join the Allies. While grinding his teeth at Communists, Socialists, Pacifists, he grinds his own axe as well. His paper is subsidized by the Allies. His fame and popularity grow to such proportions that, after the War, when he marches on the capitol, Mirasol, he is immediately proclaimed Dictator by the helpless King. For a time, with Luciana helping, he is kingpin. But he needs king-pin-money from U. S. Financier Stedford to keep going...
...life of Benito Mussolini there is in fact no Stedford, no Luciana and no Elena. Not a "Stedford" but Wall Street's greatest banks have supplied the Fascist Regime with loans. So many women have brightened the Dictator's leisure that to pick out one and call her "Luciana" is mere English understatement. Finally the Dictator, who was a proud, prolific father long before his rise to power, has most certainly never aspired to marry a daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele...