Word: dopolavoro
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...simultaneously in the town's big stadium, pumping away together at 21 different tunes. In the enormous (3,500-seat) tent erected for the occasion, the bands played weekends-from early afternoon until early the next morning. Among those present: 40 emotional Italians of the Corpo Musicale del Dopolavoro Fer-roviario of Milan who nearly blasted the $40,000 tent to pieces with Cam Amati, a musical description of attacking Italian tanks in World War II; three bands of sardine fishermen and rice workers from Portugal, who traveled almost two weeks by bus in order to perform...
...Feast of Us Others had been managed by the Trasteverini themselves until 1917, when the Fascist Dopolavoro (workers' recreation society) tried to turn it into an organized political celebration. "One year," recalls Housewife Felicetta Gaudenzi, "they brought a Negro all the way from Abyssinia to stand at the entrance to the bridge. You paid so much, and you punched him. Then, unless you paid extra, he punched you back...
...some 15,000,000 low-salaried German workers the most active and pleasurable of the Reich's manifold organizations is the recreation-providing, culture-giving Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. To 3,500,000 Italian workers membership in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (National After-Work Organization) is a similar welcome means of getting cheap theatre and opera seats, cut-price vacations, inexpensive athletic facilities, free instruction in artistic and cultural studies...
There were visits to the reclaimed Pontine Marshes, Florence, Milan and the northern Italian lakes. Described to the delegates were Dopolavoro's 1,227 theatres in which are given 25,000 performances annually, Saturday matinees with seats selling at 2½, 5? and 10?. The delegates were taken to the sumptuous Dopolavoro clubhouse of the Air Force employes, and to the equally impressive railroaders' Dopolavoro club in Rome: 100 guest bedrooms, a theatre seating 1,500 persons, a library of 7,000 volumes, a restaurant, bar, poolroom, bocci-ball court, gymnasium. Also on view were "Thespis Cars," trucks...
Under the terms of the Labor Pact, officially recognized last week by the Italian and German Governments, immediate exchange will begin between the two countries of workmen, labor leaders and foremen to mingle and study each other's methods. Italians will show off their nation-wide Dopolavoro ("After Work") organization with its traveling theatres, touring movie projection units and sport recreation centres of all sorts for Fascist workers. In Germany the similar organization has been copying the Italian model fast, outstripping it in the matter of proletarian pleasure cruise ships now slated to take the unprecedented number...