Word: benevento
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, are mostly free-wheeling romps, light on drama but buoyed by richly melodious scores. Le Pescatrici is a kind of seagoing Cinderella. A handsome prince moors his ship at a small fishing village. He is in search of the long-lost heiress to the Benevento throne, who was spirited away as a baby, after her father's assassination. For reasons of state, the prince wants to marry her. Two fisherwomen immediately claim to be the princess, fall all over themselves seeking the prince's affection. The real princess (beautifully sung by Yugoslav Contralto Ruza...
...only twelve, soon bought his first Model T, and within eight years had parlayed it into a thriving rent-a-car business that grew to a fleet of 33 cars, mostly Fords. He returned to Italy at 31 to select his bride, found her in his home town of Benevento and honeymooned at Venice's sultry Lido Beach. Back in the U.S., they called their only son Lido out of sentiment for that spot. Iacocca's father branched into real estate around Allentown, Pa., so increased his holdings that he became a pre-Depression millionaire...