Word: giovannis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eldest of nine children of poor Italian immigrants, John Deferrari was forced to quit school to help support his family. In Boston, whose North End slums were all that he knew, young John took up father Giovanni's career. A fruit basket on his arm, he started peddling apples and oranges in the State Street financial district...
...their bows had to carry part of the Hansel and Gretel scenery offstage with them when the curtain went down. A carrot-haired electrician in costume flipped a few switches, then hurried onstage again. The ticket-seller looked like-and was-the girl who had sung Zerlina in Don Giovanni. It was homemade "Lemonade Opera," and though the singing and acting were occasionally weak and sugary, Manhattan was gulping it down...
...orchestra the company substituted two pianos. Cost of production: $49 a night for two pianists and Musical Director Hieber, all union members. By last weekend, Lemonade Opera had given 20 sell-out performances of Don Giovanni and 16 Hansel and Gretels...
...witch, decked out in a grotesque sausage-shaped nose (see cut), sung by Ruth Kobart, 23, a graduate of Chicago's American Conservatory of Music. Critics thought that Lemonade Opera might have uncovered a potential star in Juilliard-trained Soprano Mary Paull, who sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (and who translated the operas into English...
Soon two angry factions faced each other in the square. The coffee-house owners hastily cleared the tables. This gave watching Mayor Cavaliere Giovanni Marcovaldi, who is stone deaf, an inkling of what was going on. His paunch protruding majestically, he carried himself to the middle of the square like a ship in full sail and shouted: "Children, children, don't let's be children. You are citizens. If you have a disagreement, appoint a committee. Don't make Fiumicino the laughing stock of the countryside...