Mary Ammirato-Collins
Mary Ammirato-Collins (or Mary Collins Ammirato, born April 3, 1908, date of death unknown) was an artist and poet born in Houston, Texas. She was a student at the Académie Julian in Paris. She exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1937. Mary also had a showing of her enamels on copper during a visit to the US in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary lived in the Canary Islands with husband Claudio Ammirato, who was an artist and composer, and a physicist. Both who were long time friends of heiress Eleanor Post Hutton. Mary was a travel companion  of Eleanor's and also a Ziegfeld Follies girl in New York City where she met Claudio. Ammirato-Collins wrote the libretto for her husband's opera, "Paradise Lost (A comedy for Modern Times)". Books. Ammirato was the author of several books of poems, some of which were illustrated by her husband Claudio Ammirato: