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...Orange, N. J., Rocco Marano, 30, walked up to a policeman, said: "I've just shot and killed my father. He's lying in the gutter on Henry Street." Son Marano explained that his father had threatened to cut his mother's head off, eat her heart. Father Marano. whose mother was found beheaded in Italy some years ago and whose brother is wanted for murdering his wife & son. had just returned from prison after serving a 15-year sentence for murdering a saloonkeeper's wife...
...neither presents his card nor flips his glove in his enemy's face. Instead, he bites his opponent's ear. Enacting the role of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana at Manhattan's Hippodrome last week, Tenor Sidney Raynor's bite went wild. He missed Baritone Rocco Pandiscio's ear, took a painful nip out of the Pandiscio cheek. Peace was made over the bandaging backstage. Later in the evening Baritone Pandiscio went onstage with his round jowl swathed. He played his next role heartily, the doleful clown in Pagliacci...
...About [June 1929] he and a fellow named Rocco Delarme operated a beer distributing business with offices at ... East 149th Street. They got a telephone and ran a private extension over to the Third Avenue speakeasy so that the defendant could direct his business from there. They operated under the name of Harmon & Delarme, distributing beer on a major scale. ... In November of 1929 he entered into a partnership with Stevens and Ahearn [two bootleggers indicted with Flegenheimer but missing] and began operating on a very major scale...
...King's Horses (Paramount). This is designed for people who like uniforms and double-identity scenes and even more for those who like Carl Brisson. He plays both leading roles-King Rudolph, a monarch who leaves his throne to see life, and Carlo Rocco, an actor who substitutes for the King. There are many scenes where Brisson sings to himself, argues, drinks and laughs with himself, filling the screen in all directions with the manly Brisson dimples but managing more than in his earlier pictures to tone down the Brisson mannerisms. A situation develops well toward the middle...
...Lawrence Damore, 26, mother of five; 2) Mrs. Lucille Quarante, 25, mother of three; 3) Mrs. Margaret Palella, 24, mother of three; 4) Mrs. Angeline Dell, 22; 5) Mrs. Dominic Damore, 21; 6) Sarah, 21, twin of No. 5; 7) Isabel, 19; 8) Vito, 17; 9) Michael, 16; 10) Rocco, 16, twin of No. 9; 11) Joseph 15; 12) Frank, 12; 13) Mary, 11; 14) Nicholas, 10; 15) John, 8; 16) Philip, 6; 17) Nancy, 5; 18) Rose, 2; 19) Benito Guy, 11 mo. On the way is a 20th child who, if a boy, will be named "Italo Balbo...