Word: negri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Piccola Eva. a story about slavery in harsh old Kentucky. The premiere production of Luigi Ferrari Tre-cate's Zio Tom (Uncle Tom) at the Rome Opera House celebrated the centenary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, but Rome found it a masterpiece of contemporary social realism. "Poveri negri!" (Poor Negroes), enthusiasts shouted from the balconies, and next morning the Rome press chimed in. "A great opera and a great story," said II Messaggero. "The fight for freedom belongs to eternity, and where could it be better fought than on the stage of the Rome Opera House...
Though 35 years had passed since her swooning body draped the bier of Cinema Idol Rudolph Valentino, Polish-born Pola Negri, 63, still held some aspects of her fabled romance with Valentino too sacred to reveal. Interviewed by Columnist Bob Considine at her San Antonio home, the onetime goddess of the silent screen wistfully recalled that "Rudolph loved to make spaghetti and meatballs. He had his own special recipe. I never tire of it, and I will never share with anyone else the secret of his meat sauce...
Married. Anna Maria Mussolini. 30, the late Duce's fifth and youngest child, a $192-per-month pensioner who has been partially crippled from polio since childhood; and Giuseppe Negri, 24, nightclub M.C.; in Ravenna, Italy...