TURN OF DRUG (1920)
Single Act
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
The pharmacist tells his friend Xavier Theodore's escape of his wife with another man, and accept it philosophically. Teodoro buy, then, of arsenic to kill rats, but forget the powder on the bench. The involuntarily takes Carmela, the wife of Xavier maid who came to buy some aspirin for the sick lady. Xavier, though innocent, was arrested and accused of femicide.
MAN IS A GENTLEMAN (1922)
Three acts
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Gennaro, actor-manager of a troupe of strolling players, is located in a hotel in Bagnoli, where the trial drama "Mala nova" by Libero Bovio for vacationers. Its history is intertwined with that of impresario Alberto, in which the lover Bice reveals she is pregnant. Alberto wants to marry her, but she escapes. Thus man comes to the home of Beatrice and discovers that they are already married to Count Carlo Tolentano that subodorata the affair, gives rave. To avoid scandal, Alberto pretends to be crazy. To complicate things comes the testimony of Gennaro. Alberto ends at the police station to be interned. But Bice discovers that her husband cheated on her and they too crazy while pretending not to confess to adultery. And Gennaro, the police station because they did not pay the accounts of the hotel, it is foolish to believe in itself.
SAY YES IS FOREVER (1927)
Two acts
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Michael, apparently cured of madness, has just been released from the asylum and returns home by his sister Teresa, the only one to know the truth. The woman, in her absence, has rented the room to a young actor, Louis Road. Michael, whose folly is hidden under a veneer of normalcy, combines a series of troubles, because it takes literally everything they are told. In the second act the scene shifts to Vincent's house, fighting with his brother, with whom, he says, will make peace only in death. So, during lunch for the birthday of Vincenzo, already cheered by a poem in which he performs Louis Cemetery Road, comes a funeral wreath sent by his brother. Michael also pursues the young Louis with a knife in an attempt to do the surgery because he believes insane. But Teresa reveals that the real crazy is Michael, who returns to the asylum.
REQUIE A L’ANEMA SOJA/ DO NOT FEAR THE DEAD (1926)
Single Act
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Amalia mourns the sudden death of husband Gennaro. Enrico arrives unexpectedly, salesman and a lessee of a room of the house. He wants to go to bed, but his room has been transformed into a funeral parlor. Doctor Henry confesses to a fear of sleeping in the room that has hosted the corpse. The doctor reassures him by telling him not to be afraid of the dead men who were unarmed, but of the living. In that moment, in fact, we hear violent screams coming from the stairs. Two men were stabbed for trivial reasons. Henry apologizes to the dead and, fearing an attack from outside, barricaded himself in the house.
Philosophically (1928)
Single Act Published and never represented
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
The modest employee Gaetano Piscopo is concerned about the fate of two daughters, Margaret and Mary, unmarried. In his house he held a feast at which the girls also participate in two suitors. Boys happy but with some physical defects: Arthur terribly Vincenzino is blind and shortsighted. But love triumphs, is the one, and another, ask and get the hand of the girls.
SIK-SIK, The ARTEFICE MAGIC (1929)
Single Act
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Sik-Sik performs as a magician in a third-rate theater with his wife, Georgetta, visibly pregnant. One evening the godfather Nicholas, who mixed in with the audience, ensures the success of its numbers, missing the appointment and the magician is forced to replace it with Rafele, the first happened. At the last minute presents Nicola. The two "shoulders" quarrel among themselves and lose, unbeknownst to Sik-Sik, the padlock rigged, by the number of disappearances of Georgetta, and the white dove. The games fail miserably: Georgetta, locked in the trunk, was freed by her husband with a hammer and a chicken in black appears, under the hat Rafele, instead of the dove. The curtain falls.
CHI È CCHIÙ FELICE ’E ME! (1929)
Two acts
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Vincent, a small landowner, avoid anything that might disturb his peace and is believed to be the happiest man in the world. But the misfortune to arrive just in the house: the young Richard, after wounding a creditor in a fight, he takes refuge in his house, forcing Vincent, under the threat of the gun, to deny the presence of the police. Two months have passed and Richard, now settled its lawsuit, continued to frequent the house of Vincent and his wife Margaret corteggiarne, fueling rumors. The friends try to warn Vincent and just when they are going to prove the fidelity of his wife, Margaret throws herself into the arms of Richard.

FIGURE THOSE OF THIRTY YEARS AGO (1929)
Single Act
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Gennaro, owner of the illegal gambling "hunting club", assumes the new "pole" Louis, with the task of assuring the victory of Don Peppino "chicken" on duty, by words and gestures conventional. But Louis, silly and honest at the same time, does not understand that every sentence has a double meaning and can not remember the signs. Thus the victim, due to constant errors of Louis, instead of losing, triumphs. With the arrival of the police Gennaro, a trick, gets rid of any evidence, but Louis messes up everything again.
EVERY YEAR FROM POINT AND CHIEF (1931)
Single Act unpublished
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
A customer enters the barbershop Rafele, but the owner is not there. The sister Philomena told him that when we approach the feast of Piedigrotta Rafele is dedicated to writing songs. The customer asks the waiter to serve him, but the boy, as he prepares for his beard, prides itself on being a good mandolin. Enter the barber, but just started shaving burst Giorgetta manicure, an aspiring singer, and a young poet. Now they talk of songs, ignoring the customer. These furious but is silenced: the people of Naples was born to sing and everyone should keep this art alive.
HAS COME 'THIRTY ONE / AND EVERY YEAR FROM CAPE POINT (1931)
Two time
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
After the song "Point and head!" sung by the soubrette and girls, follows the original skit "has arrived 'or thirty-one" in a humble home in the New Year's Eve, dinner is interrupted by the arrival of his daughter's boyfriend, who carries a radio as a gift. The radio announces a show live from New Theatre with the participation of the Trio De Filippo. The house is dissolved in the stage of the Teatro Nuovo, where four singers perform. Concludes the first time "Sik-Sik, the architect magic". The second stage consists of five different sketches, the last of whom, in symmetry with the previous time, is an old success of the "Theater Humor," "The Merry Widow", the musical parody "Synthetics at any cost."
CHRISTMAS AT HOME Cupiello (1931)
Three acts
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Luke Cupiello, like every Christmas, preparing the crib, including the neglect of his wife Concetta and his son Tommaso, who with him despite repeated that he does not like the crib. Then there are the constant bickering between the brother Pasqualino and Tommasino, both with the tick of the theft. Ninuccia, the other daughter, has decided to leave her husband for her lover Vittorio Nicolino, and write a farewell letter, Concetta, desperate, unable to have it delivered. The letter, however, happen in the hands of Luke, unaware of all, delivering in-law, who thus learned of the betrayal of his wife. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, found themselves faced with the carelessness of Luke, collide violently. Nicolino Ninuccia leaves and Luke, which had become suddenly aware of the situation, falls into a state of unconsciousness. In the final delirium, Vittorio Luca exchange for Nicolino and unwittingly makes reconcile the two lovers, and finally tells Tommasino that they like the crib.
THE VOICE OF THE OWNER / THE SUCCESS OF THE DAY (1932)
Single Act unpublished
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
The scene takes place in a recording studio, where the singer Mariella Floramy must record the song "Adduormete cu me," the master Tagliaferri, having only five possibilities for replication. The teacher was replaced at the last minute. Among the musicians there who has not slept because of the jealousy of his wife, who feels out of tune because you have a tooth removed and who has whooping cough. At the time of the incision, he starts playing the alarm also bought by the master. The Director, in desperation, suspend the registration.
GENNARENIELLO (1932)
Single Act
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
On the terrace of a building and interact Gennareniello young schoolteacher Anna. Gennareniello is married with Concetta, and lives with her son Tommasino, slow and full of tics, and the spinster sister and painter. He is dedicated to useless inventions and allows Matthew, drawing master, not to pay for the room rented in exchange for technical projects of his inventions. Urged by his friends, Gennareniello courting Anna, but is surprised by Concetta: when an argument between the two, following which Gennareniello leaves the marital home. His friends dissuade and at the same time laugh at him, and "acchittano" by dandy. The wife defends the dignity offended and riaccoglie home.

THREE MONTHS LATER (1934)
Single Act unpublished
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
The main characters are James and Pug, like those in "The last button," developed by "The millions of Uncle Petroff" Garcia Alvarez and Muños Seca. The two are in possession of some compromising letters from a lady asking her blackmail and five thousand. But when the husband, jealous, the two were so frightened that, to prevent the letters end up in his hands, combine a series of troubles, to surrender, unwittingly, into the hands of a watch.
SYNTHETIC AT ANY COST (1934)
Single Act
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
An unlikely group of singers from overwork looks for a contractor with the intention of representing the operetta "The Merry Widow." Contractor accepts the request, but gives them only a few minutes throughout the show, which runs in paroxysmal rhythms, and musical comedy in a crescendo.
FIFTH FLOOR, YOU GREETINGS! (1934)
Single Act
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
A group of workers is demolishing an old house. After several gags between the masons and a prospective purchaser of the materials resulting from demolition, arrives breathlessly tells of a man who lived there to be a child. Reviewing the old walls, recalls with nostalgia the past that now, years later, he seems more beautiful, then pulls a wall three or four layers of wallpaper, up to that of his house: he takes a piece and slowly walks away.
ONE WITH WHITE HAIR (1935)
Three acts
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
The scene opens on yet another argument between Josephine, daughter of wealthy industrialist Battista Grossi and her husband Julian. The contention is subtly fueled precisely by the Baptist, who, under the guise of serious professional, never misses a chance to plot, no reason behind relatives and friends. He betrayed the trust of his nephew Francis, that he had entrusted to him to resolve a sensitive issue with a woman. Victim last baseness of her father, Julian, unable to shoot him, slapped him in public, revealing the true face of man, defended by the respectability of his white hair.
EYE TO THE GIRLS! (Residue 800 Neapolitan) (1936)
Single Act Unpublished and never performed
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Anastasia Cardelli, upper-class woman Neapolitan widow, his son Jerome forced to act as guardian to the three sisters and their suitors. The boy is ashamed of the situation but failed to object to the mother. A letter reveals, however, that his girlfriend Louise, while in turn is controlled by three brothers, sold long ago to a young man, just to control the excessive rebellion. Jerome then convinces her mother to free the sisters.
DANGEROUSLY / SAN CARLINO (1938)
Single Act
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Michael, on his return from America, went to Arturo's house, where he finds his wife Dorothy, the character rather crabby. The woman tells how her husband shot every time he goes into a rage and how each time it is pardoned, remained unharmed. When Arthur returns, Dorothea responds rudely and was born a fistfight. Michael tries in vain to prevent Arturo firing. Part of the shot, but Dorothy is once again unscathed. Arturo says that his friend is shot blanks: Dorothea, believing pardoned, every time thanks to the Lord and for a while 'is a quiet day.
THE PART OF HAMLET (1940)
Single Act
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Franco is an old actor-manager of the province, by then also for the lack of talent, to "serve" the company at the theater. One evening the first actor threatens to leave the show and the young actors deluded into believing that Franco will take over the role of Hamlet. Franco does not want to believe at the beginning, then left to convince. But the former actor and he comes back, all dressed up, he discovers the terrible insult.
DO NOT PAY! (1940)
Three acts
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Ferdinand Quagliolo, a bank manager passionate lot of the game, but eternal loser, out of the house badly Bertolini, one of his employees, paid a visit to his loving daughter Stella and that instead it is always a winner. But the young man announced that it has even won a set of four in a dream, gave him precisely the deceased father of Ferdinand. Ferdinand steals the ticket because, in his opinion, the father simply wrong person: Bertolini fact, lives in the former apartment of Quagliolo. After disquisitions with the pastor and furious quarrels with his family, accompanied by a gunshot, Quagliolo sells the ticket, but throws a curse in front of the portrait of the deceased whenever Bertolini will attempt to collect the win, the unfortunate happen. After a series of accidents, Bertolini decides to waive the ticket. Satisfied, Ferdinand "retires" the curse and let Bertolini married Stella. The payout remains in the family.
I AM, THE HEIR (1942)
Three acts
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
Amedeo Selciano reunited with his family, always involved in charity work and talks about the recent funeral of Prospero Ribera, who for thirty years had been a guest in the house, thanks to the generosity of the old Selciano. It has the son of Prospero, Ludovico, and demands that his father's place, in his opinion rendered unproductive by the blatant generosity of the family. The logic of his speech, and threats, persuaded to accept the Ludovico Selciano that, like his father, will suffer the taunts of the family, and will, in turn, the clandestine love of women.
HIS SMALL HANDS (1943)
Single Act unpublished
Cantata of days equal

PLOT
The story continues the plot of "Philosophically," but the focus is in particular to the pair of friends Arthur and Vincenzino, this time two veterans, one blind and one sighted. Vincenzino acts as a guide to Arthur, but because of its high myopia, which does nothing to endanger his life. The two young people are invited to the home of Don Gaetano Nazzaro, father of two girls, Mary and Margaret. The first accepts the marriage proposal of Vincenzino, while the second is captured by the sweet words of Arturo.
NAPLES millionaire!
Three acts
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Gennaro Jovine, a poor inhabitant of a "bottom" of Naples during the war, helplessly the black bag that his wife Amalia and the children are to survive, and, during an inspection of the police, is forced to pretend to be dead not to show them the goods . Gennaro was taken prisoner and Amalia maintains a friendship, not only business, with the young Settebellizze Errico, Maria Rosaria and her daughter becomes pregnant with an American soldier, and his son becomes a car thief. Gennaro unexpectedly returns from captivity, while all the dead at his home celebrating the birthday of Henry. General euphoria nobody wants to listen to his stories. Gennaro leaves the room and goes to watch Rituccia, the youngest daughter, gravely ill. To provide the right medicine is the accountant Spasiano, that Amalia, the black market, has taken away all that is good "has to go 'to nuttata" to overcome the crisis of Rituccia, the family of Naples.
GLASSES BLACKS
Single Act Published and never represented
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Mario Spelt is blinded by the war and returned, with her sister Maria, is awaiting the outcome of an intervention that could restore his sight. He warns, however, that the girlfriend of the Assumption, where remained blinded, the only marry out of pity. When you remove the bandage and discovers that the intervention was unsuccessful, he pretends to have regained his sight and he also rejects the Assumption, not to force her to spend her life next to a crippled.
THESE GHOSTS!
Three acts
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
In an apartment of a seventeenth-century palace are to live Lojacono Pasquale and his young wife Mary. Unbeknownst to Maria, Pasquale has an agreement with the owner, whereby, in exchange for lodging, will dispel the rumors about the existence of ghosts in the house. Influenced by the stories of the goalkeeper, Pasquale stumbles upon Alfred, his wife's lover, and mistakes him for a ghost. With its neighbor, Professor Santanna, silent and invisible witness to what happens at home, while entertaining monologues. The Gift of Alfredo allow the couple some benesssere and Pasquale, feeling benefited by the ghost, do not put too many questions. Not withstanding the more ambiguous complicity shown by her husband, Maria decides to escape with Alfredo, but his family come from Easter to denounce adultery and are in turn exchanged for ghosts. Alfredo returns with his wife and Pasquale, without donations, is in trouble: reunited when Alfredo, eager to embrace Mary recognizes him as a "ghost" and reveals his love for his wife and the pain of being unable to ensure a dignified life. Alfredo, moved by those words, is the game and gives the money to Paschal desired.
Filumena Marturano
Three acts
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
The scene opens on Filumena, a former prostitute, and Domenico, furious, because it's just been forced to marry the woman, his partner for many years, it's fake on his deathbed. Filumena Dominic tells the reason for his action: give a name to his three children, of whom there has always been silent. Dominic, who intends to marry the nurse who assisted during the Filumena pretend illness, entrusts the lawyer Nocella the dissolution of marriage. Filumena confesses to Domenico that one of the three boys is her son, but will not reveal what not to harm others. Thus begins the slow transformation of Domenico vainly seeking the identity of his son. Eventually Dominic gave the reasons for Filumena and feeling that boys regard him as their father, decides to celebrate the wedding again the presence of her recent "family".
THE LIES WITH THE LONG LEGS
Three acts
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Free Crowned lives with her sister Constance in genteel poverty. Graziella loves the girl, her neighbor with a past as a prostitute, but hesitates to marry her not to endanger the marriage of Constance and Robert, mature and well-meaning man. A couple of neighbors, Olga and Frank, after yet another quarrel, come to seek advice: Benedict live, work, away from Naples and his wife will not reach it, the man then confesses that he knocked up a waitress. Benedict departed, Olga hopes instead of wanting to escape with an American officer. The officer leaves Olga pregnant, and this, not being able to attribute the absent husband, deceives Free. Benedict, for his son did not accept the opportunity. At the party for the christening of the child, Free, seeing the triumph of hypocrisy, Graziella has as rich heiress, forcing the guests to accept it.
THE GREAT MAGIC
Three acts
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Among the guests of the hotel Metropole is located Calogero Di Spelt, derided the excessive jealousy of the beautiful wife Marta. The Illusionist Marvuglia Otto, during his show, pretending to make it disappear, so as to enable it to meet with her lover. But Martha flees permanently. A Calogero, seeking to regain his wife, the magician makes you believe that the woman is in a closed box and riabbracciarla can only believe in that faith, which has always doubted, when you open the box without this faith, will not see it ever. Calogero as is convinced. Four years have passed, the box is still closed and he seems to believe that his wife is in there: when Martha decides to return, Marvuglia, makes her reappearance simulating the conclusion of the experiment. The woman tells the truth to her husband but the wife rejects Calogero, preferring the box where he keeps his illusion.
VOICES INSIDE
Three acts
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Alberto Saporito complaint, with his brother Charles, the murder of his friend Aniello Amitrano missing for a few days, by Cimmaruta, his neighbors. But when the police stormed into the house without finding any evidence Cimmaruta, Alberto slowly realizes that he has dreamed the whole thing. The Cimmaruta, acquitted, one by one can profess to believe the murder of Albert, and end up blaming each other, trying to find out what evidence in its possession. Meanwhile, his brother takes advantage of the situation to steal a few things from Alberto. You also miss the old uncle Nicholas, who, considering useless talking, communicating with a silent language based on barrels and fireworks. Alberto reluctance to risk arrest, while Cimmaruta weave a plan to suppress it. Finally Aniello Alberto reappears and only now can vent his outrage at the immorality daily, to those who believed the crime can be tried first to bribe and then kill him.
THE NUMBER ONE FEAR
Three acts
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Virginia, exasperated by her husband Matthew Generoso, which made life impossible for the family with his obsession with an imminent third world war - justified by the tensions between the great powers - asks for help to his brother Arturo. This creates a fake radio news in announcing the outbreak of total war. Matthew, paradoxically calmed by the materialization of his phobias, back to being confident. To Luisa, however, future mother-in-law of the daughter of Matthew, the news has stirred fears and a recent archaic sense of possession, so he bricked his son in a closet, for fear of losing it. Maternity voracious and terror of the past weigh on the new generation who can not understand them.
FRIENDSHIP
Single Act
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Bartholomew, elderly landowner dying, is cared for by his sister Caroline, in a country house. Albert comes to visit, an old childhood friend, but Bartholomew is a sign of not wanting to see. In his delirium, however, asks to see Aunt Matilda, who died long ago. Carolina convinces Albert to pass themselves off as her aunt. Bartholomew then asked to see a policeman, a black soldier and finally a notary. Albertosi lends itself to all these disguises, but when it is in the role of the notary, Bartolomeo him a parcel of letters and confesses his secret: he was the lover of the wife of Bartholomew and is the father of her child.
MY FAMILY
Three acts
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Alberto and Elena Stigliano live together with their children Beppe and Rosaria, indifferent to each other. Beppe, who refused a safe job at the radio, escapes with a friend in Paris, hoping for a film career. Rosaria girl poses as unscrupulous, while Elena, assiduous player, confesses his debt to her husband who, in turn, has an affair. Alberto, traumatized by the events, stops talking and walks away from home, Helen, left the game, now has a tailor shop. Alberto goes outside his silence only to denounce the police for her son, who is suspected of a murder that took place in France. A year later he married and Rosaria Beppe, found innocent, he worked on the radio. Only after a clarifying dialogue with his daughter, Alberto feels close to the family and the warm greeting that speaks to his wife, seems to want to go home.
Well my Heart my
Three acts
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Shawm, mature sister of Lorenzo Savastano, a restorer of works of art, threatening suicide if her brother is getting married, for fear of being marginalized. Lorenzo, in front of her sister selfishness, accepts a job offer in America. During his absence, the greengrocer Filuccio Chiarina seduces and gets her pregnant. When Lorenzo returns, Filuccio, Chiarina decided to marry, he asks the store and the house which is located upstairs, with the excuse to settle the old stepmother, Virginia. But Lorenzo discovers that Virginia is rich and beautiful and that Filuccio would forfeit his goods: taking advantage of the religiosity of Virginia, convinced her to have contact with his deceased father, and that he was opposed to other weddings. Lorenzo takes his revenge: he married Virginia, intestandole the house and warehouse.
VINCENZO DE PRETORE
Two parts and six square
Cantata of odd days

PLOT
Vincenzo De pretore Ninuccia Magistrate explains to his girlfriend, threatening suicide if you do not marry, to await the day when she can give her a comfortable life, and tells her to be the son of a wealthy man, raised by a poor couple. But to live is forced to steal, and ends up in jail. Recommended by Ninuccia, is chosen as the patron Saint Joseph, and since then his "work" is going very well. Grateful to the Holy, whenever a theft goes well, bring flowers and candles at the altar. One day, however, is fatally wounded by a bullet. In his delirium, the scene shifts to heaven, where St. Joseph's intercession with the Lord, pity that the story of the son of an unknown father, greets him with it. While dreaming, Vincenzo died in the squalor of the Emergency room, standing next to a faithful Ninuccia.
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