Word: giacosa
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...profitable to sell. Perhaps the dealers deserve at least part of his criticism. But his idea that considering paintings in terms of dollars and cents is both a special product and a leading cause of contemporary art falls flat. He overestimates his forebears. When an Italian dramatist named Guiseppe Giacosa visited the United States in 1898, he proclaimed that "the primative measurement of works of art in terms of dollars and cents in the United States leaves me with a sense of disgust. I remember a visit to the home of a very rich collector of pictures in New York...
...sections of the city they could not walk through for fear of meeting creditors. Puccini scored a critical success with his first opera, a one-acter entitled Le Villi, but he did not win a large following until at 34 he collaborated with his two most successful librettists, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, to produce Manon Lescaut. After that his popular success was secure...
...Vecchia per la Nuova sa quel che Lascia e non sa quel che Trova," the first play ever put on a stage by the Circolo Italiano, will be presented in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a three-act comedy by Giuseppe Giacosa, one of the best-known Italian dramatists of the day. The title of the comedy is a proverb, which means that he who leaves the old for the new knows what he leaves behind and does not know what he is to find...
...Circolo Italiano play, which will be the first ever undertaken by that organization, will be held in Brattle Hall on May 16 at 8 o'clock. The piece is a three-act comedy by Giuseppe Giacosa, entitled "Chi Lascia la Via Vecchia per la Nuova sa quel che Lascia e non sa quel che Trova...
...wife than becomes jealous, repents of having urged her husband to go into society, and finally begs him to return to the old way of living, but he tells her that he is satisfied to dress and appear well, yet will spend his evenings with her a formerly. Signor Giacosa, the author, is one of the best known Italian dramatists of the present day and has written some thirty books and plays...