Word: luisa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coat, sword, trousers with gold stripes, decorations, hat like an admiral's only much gayer. It was an Italian holiday, newly named Lateran Treaty Day. Crowds thronged the Tiber's banks. Honored _ guests at the Vatican included Camilla Ratti, sister and nearest relative to the Pope, and Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti-Ugolini, the Pope's favorite niece, who named her daughter Maria Rio Pia in her uncle's honor. Bustling about was Monsignor Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Master of the Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved for his virtues, Master Caccia-Dominioni arranges papal audiences...
...homely old lady should not have hesitated. She was Luisa Tetrazzini. But Tetrazzini had never counted on singing her farewell turn to cinemaddicts who scarcely knew of her. Tremblingly, with oldtime sweetness she sang "The Last Rose of Summer," hesitated, quavered when she came to "all her lovely companions have faded and gone." In her concerts ten years and more ago Tetrazzini had to sing encore after encore. . . the house darkened for a comedy called Oh My Operation...
...with practiced enthusiasm. Then cameramen photographed her stuffing it in her bosom. She said she had worn that flag next to her heart ever since she departed the U. S. ten years ago. "Viva America!" she shrilled. "America is my one grand passion!" She could shrill, too. She was Luisa Tetrazzini...
...satchel, was hurriedly packed off to Italy in the company of a cousin. There she grew up. The Burschstein relations in Capri were poor: Rosa must work. Working, she sang, and soon a rich woman discovered her voice, sent her off to study with Eva Tetrazzini, sister of Soprano Luisa Tetrazzini and wife of Maestro Cleofonte Campanini...
Italy's Graham McNamee is Maria Luisa Boncompagni. "Why," she asked last week, "does Italy have only women radio announcers, three in Rome, one in Naples, two in Milan, one in Genoa, and one in Bolzano...