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...ITALIAN TRAGEDY - Nicola Cu-ringa - Liveright ($2.50). The grim realities of a humble and emotional people engulf Peasant Giacomo as he returns from America to the poverty of his home in Italy during World War I. Clumsily told but rich in detail...
...broadcast last Sunday on the regular Toscanini-conducted NBC Symphony program, with a second installment to follow this week. For his Fidelia the maestro drew heavily on the Metropolitan's roster, allotted principal roles to Sopranos Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Herbert Janssen, Bass Nicola Moscona. At the end of the broadcast, a distinguished audience-including half of Manhattan's top-rank musical celebrities, who had frantically begged their invitations-caught its breath, hoped fervently that the maestro might somehow make a more lasting peace with opera in the U.S. The Toscanini Fidelia would...
...pure color of medieval windows. They found not only that the medieval stained glass was more luminously splendid than that of the Renaissance, but that it was also more permanent. After much careful research, such famed U.S. glassmakers as Boston's Charles Jay Connick and Philadelphia's Nicola D'Ascenzo readopted the medieval method. The stained-glass makers of the "Gothic Revival" again worked entirely in medieval snippets...
...families. But no great throng of erring children hastened to make their submissions. Last Sunday, many a parishioner worshiped before a gaudy statue in his home. Said Nick Gambatese, as his daughters prayed to the Holy Mother: "I stay home until I find out more about it." Nicola Scricca fixed up a big altar, told reporters: "Every day we pray here-my wife and four children. Today it was our 'Mass.' I read and they are the congregation. It is the best we can do. . . . We will make things right as quick as we can. . . . You watch...
...British India steamer Sirdhana (7,745 tons) blew up last week as it left Singapore harbor. William ("The Great") Nicola, U. S. magician, lost tons of paraphernalia but he, his wife & troupe were saved. A gang of 137 Chinese deportees had to be turned loose from their prison in Sirdhana's forward hold, recaptured later. The third officer of a Japanese steamer moored nearby rushed to the rescue in a small boat. Blamed for the disaster was a recently derelict British mine, broken loose from the Singapore naval base defense field...