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When Italy turned up on the winning side in World War I, Victor Emmanuel reached modest heights of popularity. His subjects referred to him (fondly, at first) as il piccolo-The Little...
...most of his career writing his song lyrics and comedy routines. "A trial separation," the couple's business manager called it, "merely for a period of readjustment." Anyway, Comedian Kaye got a chic sendoff: smartchat Vogue appeared with an interpretive photograph of him, ringed with profound symbols (a piccolo, an umbrella, a plaster brain, a yoyo, a sand pail, a fiddle, a galosh, a pop bottle, a dead chicken, a milk bottle wearing...
...milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim off the steep rocks, then back to the piazza to drink iced vermouth (70 lire, one dime,). Then dinner at the hotel (veal scaloppine, salad, spaghetti, bread, butter, cheese, wine, coffee, pastry). An evening for two at one of the small nightclubs-and a ride home in a carriage...
Lily Pons: Waltz Album (Columbia, 8 sides). Piccolo-voiced Pons trills Gounod, Strauss and Noel Coward, all in three-quarters time. Performance: good...
...Miss Josephine Piccolo, a Brooklyn textile inspector, he wrote: "My dear Dago: (If I am mistaken in this please correct me) ... Will you please keep your dirty proboscis out of the other 47 states, especially the dear old State of Mississippi...