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Slide 1:Gennaro's leather shoes
Slide 2:Gennaro is in New York as an Italian emigrant. He has to walk to work pass 20 blocks every day and each day he passes the same shoe store. Each day he stops and looks in the window to admire the latest Boccelli leather shoes from his bella Italia. He wants those shoes so much… it’s all he thinks about. After 2 months work he has enough money to buy the shoes.
Slide 3:Every Friday night the Italian community
holds a dance in the church basement....
Slide 4:Gennaro seizes this opportunity to wear his new Boccelli leather shoes for the first time.
He asks Sophia to dance and as they dance he asks her,
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'Sophia, do you wear red panties tonight?'
Startled, Sophia replies,
'Yes, Gennaro, I do wear red panties tonight, but how do you know?'
Gennaro answers,
'I see the reflection in my new
$300 Boccelli leather shoes.’
Slide 5:Next he asks Katerina to dance,
and after a few minutes he asks,
' Katerina , do you wear white panties tonight?'
Katerina answers,
'Yes, Gennaro, I do,
but how do you know that?'
He replies,
'I see the reflection in my new
$300 Boccelli leather shoes.
Slide 7:Choice of music selected from the album : The Genius of Riz Ortolani.
Track 9: Gran Walzer.