Word: siciliana
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...outcroppings of a race war in the underworld-Italians v. Jews. Accordingly, he sent his men out to find Charles Luciana, called "Lucky" because he is one of the few men to survive a "ride." "Lucky" Luciana is a squint-eyed Latin who is supposed to run the Unione Siciliana, a society which has progressively usurped the privilege of catering to New York's night life. In their march of progress, reasoned Commissioner Valentine, the "socalled Italian gangs" had felt it necessary to wipe out the "Jewish gangs" of Messrs. Amberg & Flegenheimer...
Died. Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, 44, Manhattan gangster, gambler, a power in the savage Unione Siciliana; shot dead by two unknown men in a Coney Island speakeasy...
Tambourin--Sarabande--Passepled--Contradanse en Rondeau Sonata, B minor Handel Mr. Barrere and Mr. Whiting Charming Butterfly Campra My Mother Bids me Bind my Hair Haydn Mermaid's Song Haydn Miss Collins Sonata, D minor Scarlatti Sonata, B flat major Scarlatti Siciliana, F major Scarlatti Sonata, F minor Scarlatti Mr. Whiting Dances from "Les Fetes de 1'Hymen" Rameau...
...clock: "Tannhauser." Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg Wagner Ballet Music from "Othello" Verdi Largo Handel Overture to "Gwendoline" Chabrier Symphony in B minor, "Unfinished" Schubert 1. Allegro mederato 2. Andante con moto Rossiniana, Suite from "Les Riens" of Rossini Respight a. Caprl and Taormina: Barcarole and Siciliana b. Lament c. Intermezzo d. Tarantelle (with a Passing Procession) Overture to "The Bartered Bride" Smetana Valse Triste Sibelius Gypsy Dance from "Carmen" Bizel Hungarian March. "Rakoczy" Berlioz
...brought his Chauve-Souris to Boston again, "entirely new", according to the program, but containing in the actual performance three of the acts which appeared in Boston last year. Two of these--"Katinka", and "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"--were thrown in as pseudo-encores; the third, "Siciliana", was a puppet show burlesque of Italian grand opera, with more scenery and less archness than formerly. Balieff dominated everything except the audience, although he put up a stiff fight for the possession of this domain also. He looked as though he were very much the worse for America...