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...MOUNT ALLEGRO -Jerre Mangione-Houghton MiffIin...
...Mount Allegro is the modest, unassuming, sensitive record of a young U.S. writer of Sicilian descent. It is no towering peak in U.S. letters, but readers who make the climb can get a clear view of a relatively unexplored part of the native scene- America's "Little Italys" and the people who live in them...
...Italians, part of history's greatest population movement.* Rootless and adrift in the New World, they formed "foreign language" enclaves such as the one in Rochester, N.Y., where dark, pun-loving Author Mangione grew up. "Most of my relatives lived in one neighborhood [nicknamed Mount Allegro], not more than five or six blocks from each other. That was about as far apart as they could live without feeling that America was a desolate and lonely place...
Life in Mount Allegro was warm, noisy and often violent and profane. Uncle Nino in a fit of temporary madness tried to kill his brother with a flatiron. Children at too early an age learned the meaning and implications of epithets like strafalaria (genteel translation: loose woman). And often, at night, the sky hung like a smoldering sulphurous ceiling above the optical factory that squatted on the banks of the Genesee River. "Underneath it my relatives sang and played guitars and, if they noticed the sky at all, they were reminded of the lemon groves in Sicily. They were stubborn...
...Stayed for Breakfast," variation allegro on the Ninotchka theme, casts McIvyn Douglas as the party-liner seduced by the very un-proletarian charms of Loretta Young. Catching the flavor of a Paris that is no more, the film combines the wit of the French with the crackling pace of the American movies. But indeed ironic is the script's playful treatment of a political force which contributed so much to the downfall of that Paris which it eulogizes...