Word: neapolitans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strictly Dishonorable. In a speak-easy whose murals luridly depict the Bay of Naples, a gentle-spoken maid from Mississippi (Muriel Kirkland) is wooed in ripe Neapolitan style by a singer of the Italian nobility (Tullio Carminati). She scarcely objects, for she has just had an altercation with her boorish fiance from West Orange, N. J. (Louis Jean Heydt). Even though the Italian is so indelicate as to offer her a bed in his apartment over the saloon and boldly announces his intentions as "strictly dishonorable," she does not quail...
...question, "Don't you know that lightning never strikes twice in the same place?" a typical, tattered, cheerful Neapolitan will reply, "Maybe in your country, Signore (shrug), that...
...suffered in the War, saw Claire Ambler and heard her sing once, beautifully and out of a rare simplicity. Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries she was distributing between a young Fascist and a pair of shady young Neapolitan noblemen. Suddenly understanding that death would be more terrible for Charles Orbison had he her love as well as life to lose, Claire accomplished the brave as well as the theatrically perfect conclusion. Exaggerating her accustomed appearance of chattering artificiality, she blew him a kiss and left Raona...
...Majesty Il Re Vittorio Emanuele is a Neapolitan, but not typical. True citizens of Naples are swart, merry fellows, quick to laugh, quicker to bluster, and apt to be stirring and shouting at all hours of the day or night. His Majesty, on the contrary, is cold, a martinet; but all the same he was born at Naples in 1869. Therefore thousands of Neapolitans lined the quays last week in their finest frenzy as the royal yacht Savoia, paced by four destroyers, swung into the Bay of Naples. A "favorite son" was home, pandemonium held carnival...
...program for these services will be as follows: Organ Prelude: a Prelude in G major Bach b Pastoral Symphony from The Messiah Handel Choral: "O my Deir Hert" Bach Carol: "Christmas Song" Holst Carol: "When He was born" Neapolitan Melody Carol: "The First Noel" Traditional Carol: "Bring a Torah Jeanette, Isabella" French Melody Carol: "Christ Is Born of Maiden Fair" Gauntlett Congregational Hymn: "Adeste Fideles" Reading Carol: "Le Miracle de St. Nicolas" Lorraine Melody Carol: "Les Anges dans Nes Campagnes" Old French Melody Chorus: "How Beautiful are the Feet" from The Messiah Handel Organ Postlude: Halleujah Chorus, from The Messiah...