A Sicilian in East Harlem By Salvatore Mondello

I saw in my picture books. She took me and my brother Alfred to see “The Adventures of Robin Hood” at Radio City Music Hall. I thought that Olivia deHavilland’s Lady Marian had the same high standards of moral behavior as my mother. The live stage show, “Stars at Midnight,” featured the Music Hall Corps de Ballet and the Music Hall Rockettes. Perhaps it was at that moment that I reached the conclusion that a beautiful woman had to possess shapely legs.

When I stopped going out on Sundays with my grandfather, I started going to the movies on Sundays with my friend Danny, his mother and his older sister Mary. They treated me like a member of their family and I grew to associate movies with family outings. I had a Sunday family. They always went to the Loew’s Seventy-Second Street Theater. The ceiling looked like a starlit night. After the movies we went to a soda fountain store near the theater. Danny’s father never came with us. He was a cruel man who once beat Danny with a chain.

I once tried to interest my grandfather in the movies. He took me to a show at the Star Theater on One Hundred and Eighth Street but he was uncomfortable during the movie and I never asked him to come to the movies with me again.

I once tried to interest my grandfather in the movies. He took me to a show at the Star Theater on One Hundred and Eighth Street but he was uncomfortable during the movie and I never asked him to come to the movies with me again.