Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apron and sturdily dished out a hot luncheon to 70 workmen on her husband's "model farm" at Forli in the north of Italy. Males who find themselves in the south of Italy this summer should avoid being jeered at or reviled for failure to observe an old Sicilian custom...
Lando's resultant activities were most distressing to another family group, headed by Salvo, a wealthy social climber, who prospered on unscrupulous control of Sicilian sulphur mines. Salvo had an insane wife, a jovial old-maid sister, and an invalid daughter, Dianella, of delicate charm. Having married off the old maid, sight unseen, to the prince, Lando's widowed father, Salvo, aspired to bind himself yet closer to the aristocratic Laurentanos by marrying Dianella to Lando...
...Author. Pirandello is known here and abroad for the unique informality of his drama technique. Aged 61, he has written prolifically plays, poetry, short stories, though for 30 years he taught in the Rome Normal College for Women. His father was proprietor of just such a Sicilian sulphur mine as Character Salvo...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock the second performance of the Pops Concerts will be given at Symphony Hall. The following selections will be rendered: Military Polonaise Chopin Suite from "Carmen" Vizet Song Without Words Tchaikovsky Overture to Sicilian Vespers Verdi March from "The Love of Three Oranges" Prokofieff Prelude to "Khovant china" Moussorgsky Hopak Moussorgsky Capriccis Espagnole Rimsky Korsakov Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg from "Tannhausser Wagner Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Ride of the Valkyrils Wagner
Amadeo Peter Giannini, a Sicilian peasant by ancestry, acts the Roman patrician by nature. He believes himself the guardian as well as the leader of his clients. Because he knows that the ever-expanding activities of his bank and investment corporation tend to stir up speculation in their securities, he warns the unwary...