Word: madonnas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parisians were as interested in La Scala's guest conductor as in its standout singers. The conductor was slight, thirtyish Manno Wolf-Ferrari, nephew of one of Italy's last surviving big-name operatic composers, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne...
...even more excited by the treat he has in store for his 71-year-old uncle, with whom he lives in Venice. In Naples next fall, Manno hopes to conduct the first Italian performance in more than 20 years of Uncle Ermanno's The Jewels of the Madonna. Mussolini had banned it because, he said, its story of Neopolitan hoodlumism gave Italy a bad name...
...three tiers: the parents slept in the one big bed; the children slept over it, in cradles suspended on pulleys; the pigs and chickens slept underneath it. Always, "two inseparable guardian angels" looked down from the bedroom wall: "on one side was the black, scowling face ... of the Madonna of Viggiano; on the other . . . the sparkling eyes, behind gleaming glasses, and the hearty grin of President Roosevelt. ... Sometimes a third image formed, along with these two, a trinity: a dollar bill . . . was tacked up [between the Madonna and the President] like...
...Remember Mama. Several months ago Edouard suddenly lost all interest in landscape and still life: he wanted to paint nothing except people. His mother, when she came home from her work as a charwoman, posed for Edouard: sometimes as the Madonna, draped in a shabby dressing gown, and sometimes in the nude. They worked in one of the family's two bare rooms, with Edouard's canvas propped against a suitcase on the dinner table...
Married. Roscoe Turner, 51, gaudy, wax-mustachioed president of the Turner Aeronautical Corp. of Indianapolis, and one of the nation's most spectacular speed flyers of the last decade; and Margaret Madonna Miller, 29; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...