Word: lucia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hair on the Chest. Singing so that back-row listeners could actually heaf was another problem. But this season plenty of top-rankers were on hand to try. On the nights when the Metropolitan Opera's Ferruccio Tagliavini sang Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor, there were few empty seats; fans gladly paid double prices to hear once-barred (for alleged collaboration) Tenor Beniamino Gigli sing the operatic twins "Cav" and "Pag" (Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) with popular Soprano Maria Caniglia and Baritone Tito Gobbi. Even 60-year-old Tenor Tito Schipa was on hand...
...Lucia Ladanca lives in a semi-basement room at No. 3 Via Fratelli Bandieri, a narrow, cobblestoned street swarming with seminaked children. She had first told her story to Correspondent William Rospigliosi of our bureau last spring. When I arrived, she had just received two letters from TIME readers. One, from Mrs. Betty Jane Davidson, of Bluefield, West Virginia, said that a food package was on its way and asked for shoe and clothing sizes for everybody in the family. The other, from Bernice Sherman, of Bolton Landing, N.Y., also asked for clothing measurements...
...Lucia does not read or write any language at all, so she went around the corner to a small household supply store owned by brawny Luigi Ottavia, who was born in the States. He read the letters to her and wrote her replies. 'Within the morning,' he told me, 'everybody had heard about it.' They called on her one by one, looked at the letters, which they could not read, and talked about them. Some thought nothing would happen. Others, like Luigi Ottavia, who knew something of Americans, reassured Lucia that 'something will come...
...time I was there, Lucia, who is a very devout woman, did not know what to think about this strange event that was connected with a ' giornalaio' somewhere in America. Her husband, who could not afford medicine or hospital care, had not heard from the pensions investigator who had finally arrived to look into his case. Bruno was as bare as ever, and the baby, Enzo, was getting by with a cotton singlet. All of them shared a diet which Lucia described as 'a little pasta, a little greens...
...That was last week. This morning Luigi Ottavia sent word to the Rome bureau that the first food package had arrived. He said that Lucia opened it slowly before all the neighbors who could crowd into her dingy room, and that everyone's eyes shone at the contents: ham, coffee, soap, milk, chocolate, macaroni and rice. Said Luigi Ottavia: 'At last she's beginning to believe...