Word: piccoli
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...persuasive tricks. Its most entertaining personage is Novelist Christopher Jarret whose wife is hideous and mercenary. When she accuses him of overenthusiasm in their conjugal relation, Jarret is amazed. "Look in the mirror," he says, "and tell me it is anything but a disagreeable habit.'' The Piccoli (produced by Vittorio Podrecca). In a window on a miniature stage a four-foot wooden man dressed in the black velvet costume of Don Juan sings a glib, impatient seduction at a peasant girl. He shakes with emotion and lack of breath, turns from girl to audience on the high notes...
Unlike the Tony Sarg productions, no serious effort is made at realism. The puppets are a race apart, talented and entertaining, but with the temperament of a Pinocchio. It is scarcely possible to describe "The Piccoli" as a mere puppet show, it is rather a carnival, acted by an immense cast under the aegis of a group of maestros in the art of manipulating marionettes...
Expected by Professor Salvatore Piccoli, obstetrician to H. R. H. Crown Princess Marie-José of Italy: her first child "about July first...
...MARIONETTES?The Teatro dei Piccoli of Rome presenting an odd novelty. Said to be "the best since Hector was a puppet...
...Marionettes. The business of importing continental novelties goes on apace. The present product is from Rome and is known locally as the Teatro del Piccoli. It comes with much journalistic information that the puppet show is the native drama of the land and that the operators amass family traditions much like those of our own Drews and Barrymores...