Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taste were evident throughout the exhibition, from the lacy finery she wore on festive occasions (exhibited on dressmaker's dummies at the entrance) to the staggering array of bibelots that had caught the royal eye. There were finely fashioned items of Chinese jade, Chelsea porcelain, Battersea enamel, Neapolitan piqué (tortoise shell or ivory inlaid with gold or silver), case after case of tiny, exquisite baubles, splendid examples of the jeweler's and goldsmith's art. Of small boxes alone -for snuff, beauty patches, or just for decoration-there were 550, plus 120 etuis, 150 scent flasks...
...Misia's taste. "Why should I limit myself to two or three hundred acres, when I can revel in the whole world?" she demanded. Edwards promptly sold his castle and built Misia a 100-ft. yacht. Caruso acclaimed the yacht's acoustics perfect, and tirelessly sang Neapolitan songs whenever he was a guest. "Enough!" Misia finally cried. "I can't bear that any more!" Eyes popping, Caruso exploded in dismay: "I, Caruso, the great, the incomparable Caruso! I! Princes have knelt before me, begging me to open my mouth, and you ask me to shut...
...made a gorgeous frame for the principal action. Among the brightest spots: Fonteyn's touching pantomime as the bewitched swan-princess and her vicious precision in her alternate role as the magician's wicked daughter; Dancer Somes's hurtling leaps in the court scene; a new "Neapolitan" duet (danced by Julia Farron and Alexander Grant) that nearly stopped the show...
Died. Gaetano Merola, 72, Neapolitan-born founder-director of the San Francisco Opera Company; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Conductor Merola went to San Francisco in 1921, survived two years in money-losing concert ventures to cajole Nob Hill society and ordinary citizens into backing their own city opera company. He launched his first season in 1923, prospered thereafter...
...England," complained the Marquis di Caraccioli, a discriminating Neapolitan foreign minister in the 18th century, "has more than 60 different religions and only one sauce-melted butter." Other Continental gourmets, to whom the savoring of a delicately shaded sauce is almost a religion in itself, have shared his uncomplimentary views of English cookery. But the English, firmly entrenched behind impenetrable ramparts of bubble & squeak, cold shape and suet pudding, have gone right on boiling their Brussels sprouts and slicing their mutton too thick...