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...month ago, Judge Atwell called upon two policemen to testify that they had bought a pint of whiskey from Mrs. Angelina de Luca, defendant. Attorney Serri, counsel for the defense, remarked in his summation: "A modern miracle is a prohibition agent who tells the truth on the witness stand." Judge Atwell bristled, thought of the impeccable Texas constabulary. After the conviction he loudly rebuked Mr. Serri, said: "His recital of the bootleggers' game is astonishing to the court, and I cannot understand how any reputable attorney could have such first hand information. . . . In my country had you made such...
Giuseppe De Luca Clarence Whitehill
December 7--"Luca della Robbia and his school...
...Metropolitan Opera Company in the first performance there of Massenet's Don Quichotte, second offering in the annual week of opera. One was a proud, polite horse chosen to carry Feodor Chaliapin, chivalric Knight of the Rueful Countenance. One was a scrubby, taupe donkey chosen for Giuseppe de Luca, the faithful squire. Came the second act with the Don on the quest of his lady's necklace. Came the scene where he sees windmills through the mist, takes them for menacing giants, mounts Rosinante and charges. Rosinante played his part well. It was Dapple the Donkey's turn. With...
...name of his lady. Back he came with the necklace surrendered to him for the insane simplicity of his request, back to wed his Dulcinea who, kindly for a courtesan, sent him away, back into the forest to die. Florence Easton was Dulcinea, conscientiously seductive; Giuseppe de Luca, the faithful portly Sancho, himself a little mad. The opera, critics agreed, to be of little consequence, save for Massenet's unfailing craftsmanship; endowed with little real beauty, with many melodic bromides?all of which were forgotten in the magnificent impersonation of Chaliapin, one well worth a place beside his Mephistopheles...