The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13
CARUSO'S HUMMING
PROVES VERY PUNK
But Then Even a Great Tenor
Can BE Embarrassed at a
Christening.
GODFATHER A NEW ROLE
All Spring Street Revels in
Singers Visit to Alleva's
Spaghetti Palace.


keep the crowd back.
Furthermore, when one not only owns
one Of the SWEETEST spaghetti restaurants
in all Spring street; when ones wife
has just given birth to ones first daugh-
ter: when all regular customers have
been barred from the restaurant while
beautiful little altar of silks and laces
In being built for the christenng.yy when
the news leaks out that Signor and Mrs.
Caruso are to be the godfather and god
mother of the new little black eyed
little beautiful little girl
When the father of all this excite
ment Is none other than the tall. hand
some Italian restaurateur who sports a
card that reads:
RESTAURANT VILLA MANFREDI,
Ernosto Alleva, Prop.
ELEGANTE SALA POR BANCHETTI.
SposdIisi Fcstc Famioliari:
65 and 81 Spring Street,
Telephone, Spring 6523
Well. we'll. ordinary people: some
thing Is doing,
For Enrico, who, with Mrs Enrico
often drop into the devilishly handsome
Ernesto's spaghetti salon, had said, when
Ernesto asked Enrico to he godfathe
and everything: Sure. sure. sure, sure.
sure, sure, Ernesto. On Saturday night
make it. The wife l say yes for her
Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. II 1t were
not for my contract with Gatti l would
sing it. Sure, sure, sure''
Waiting for the Great Caroos,
Four-thirty 7. VI. of the clock ar
rives- Already the handsome, dark
eyed gentlemen. all bedecked in fault
less dinner clothes--all relatives of the
baby-are pacing UP and down Spring
street. everybody hatless, hands in
pockets, watching every car that zipps
south through near by Lafayette street
In the hope that prospective godparents
Caruso are in that car. Even watching
the crowds coming out of the Spring
street subway kiosk. seventy-five feet to
the west of the restaurant, although
ashamed of the secret expectation that
the momentous Caroos would lower him
sell to the extent of coming to Spring
street in the lowly subway.
Fresh ferns. jonquils. polished crys-
tai EliLtinG silver on the long table ar
ranged in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
since noon. Wines in coolers. spaghetti
cooking to the melting point. Sauces
Mother all In most correct white satin
and pearls and everything carrying a
little fluffy bundle Of beauty in her
arms, as she paced the floor of the
restaurant and cooed to her baby. And
- night approached the softness OF the
air OF n spring evening and three-quar-
tiers of a spring moon looking down on
the expectant, gaping crowd In Spring
street.
An olive skinned and emotional people
decided they could wait no more in the
streets without screaming, when sud
denly into the moonlit street came
great dark Limousine. softly lighted
within. There was tall gentleman. ar
rayed in faultless white and black, who
stepped out first when the police had
made a lane through the crowd to the
very door of Ernesto Alleva's Restaurant
Villa Manfred He was tall to be the
great Caroos. Little did the unapplaud-
ing crowd know that the tall person in
white linen AID black broadcoth was
none other than Signor Beuno Zirato,
the magnificent Caroos's secretary.
Came a tall and beautiful young lady
from the limousine next, a lady whom
Secretary Zirato later said (after long
conference in italian and English with
another elegantly sowned LADY, wore a
green and gold lace gown. net sleeves.
the gown trimmed with Jet. and wearing
a hat TO match. the hat being trimmed
with the blue black cocks feathers af-
fected by the Bersaglieri and also wear
ing dia-'
Admiration Breaks Loose.
Hysteria interrupted Slgnor Zirato at
this point as Spring street and points
south sensed the fact that Godparents
Caruso had arrived. Two cops named
respectively, Mcnamara and Liebmeyer,
who do not even know the italian in
Elections, also forget themselves in adj
niration TO the extent Of letting the
crowd almost, but not quite get away
from them.
And as limousine after limousine
limoed and zeened up to the door every
body who had doled up to pay tribute
10 the little Miss Alleva came into view
under the combined lights OF Spring
street and the spring moon--President
Joseph Francolini OF the Italian Savings
Bank and Mrs. Francolini, Maestro
Paolo Longone Mr.. and Mrs. Constant
Sperco, Mr., and Mrs. Salvatore Fucito.
Arthur Dipietro, Pasquale S!monelll of
. the italian Savings Bank, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Scogniamillo, Miss Nina Morgana.
the singer; Mrs. Fred w. Goddart, Mr..
and Mrs. Park Benjamin. Jr-brother
and sster-in-law OF Mrs. Caruso-Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Caidaranno. Mr.. and Mrs.
Umberto G. Ferulli and every one else
who was. IN or hopes TO be anybody In
Manhattan's Italian colony.
Also the Rev. Father Pascuarllo of
old st. Patrick's Church, in Mott street
once the city's Catholic cathedral
came into the restaurant. which was
ablaze with the flags of America and
Italy. the shirt studs of Caruso, the
Jewels and Jets of the wondrously CARRIED
women. with tho young Italian priest
was a black eyed little altar hoy cleri-
cal in his surplice OF soft white lace and
his brilliant soutanne of scarlet And
when the little aoolyte gllmped Caruso
he almost--Ibut not qute-forgot his du-
ties.
Up TO the lacy silk altar at the head OF
the flower strewn table set for the guests
went everybody. Mamma Alleva handed
over to none other than the great Ca
ruso her precious burden OF dimples and
silks And Caruso. showing bit or
stage fright. Rugged the mite closely TO
his cleaning shirt front. The baby
bawled.
BABY starts Vocal Training.
At first the baby just said. "Gah
Cab! Gah!" but as these sounds seemed
10 get Il nothing II took a deep breath
grew red in the face and let loose some
thing that later was interpreted as
"Weeseeeeah WHO'D - weeeeeeeeesh