Word: alba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victorious Wellington returned to London in 1814, carrying hundreds of gifts showered upon him by the grateful Spanish. Among them was the Muse. For generations it hung almost forgotten in impressive Strat-field Saye House, the Wellington family seat near Reading, In 1952 Spain's Duke of Alba visited Stratfield, and spotted the painting, told Ric Brown, then a Harvard Ph.D. studying in Europe, about...
...special embassy to England. Trustful Miss Howard got as far as Le Havre where, stormbound overnight, she opened a newspaper and read an official announcement of Louis' betrothal to Spain's Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba and sister-in-law of the Duke of Alba. Bounding furiously back to Paris, poor Miss Howard got a second blow. All the locks in her boudoir had been smashed, the contents of her wardrobe thrown on the floor, her desk's secret drawer torn out. The secret police had done such a thorough job that...
...circus!" Mummy would scream if Diana hit an off note in her dress. "Sometimes," says Diana, recalling her mother's Grade Square duplex, "I was brought down to be introduced to Miss Gertrude Stein or Mr. Michael Arlen or Miss Tallulah Bankhead or the Duke of Alba." Barrymore relations showed up. too. "Aunt Ethel'' came to dinner, sipped lavishly, slipped and fell upon the floor. "Is Aunt Ethel very sick?" Diana asked. "It's just a Barrymore headache," answered Mummy...
...turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular admiral, while Charles became a fairly decent general. But John-who had already got his start in that affair with Barbara-was to outstrip them...
...same time, he revealed that the organization would attempt to gain either a Brattle or U.T. premiere for its recently completed all-dance film, House of Bernarda Alba. The film which is produced and directed by Graef, was made in conjunction with the Boston Conservatory of Music. Based on a play by Garcia Lorcha, it is slated to run for ten minutes...