Word: alvarez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hundred Years Old. The happy simplicity of this play, which concerns a Spanish patriarch who arranges and enjoys his 100th birthday party, is like a benison softly spoken in the clangor and fret of Broadway. Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, playwright-brothers of Madrid, might easily have drenched it in tears of sentimentality, but the best proof that their play avoids pathos is the fact that the old man does not die in the last act. Having convinced his fastidious, fortunate descendants that all the family, including Antonon, who is a truck-gardener and Gabriella, who has borne an illegitimate...
Besides his friend Miss Wills, the Bishop eyed and appraised the other seeded women players, Spain's dark and dashing Lili d'Alvarez who would like to play in a bathing suit; England's cheery, sandy-haired Eileen Bennett and determined, hard-driving Betty Nuthall; Mme. Renee Mathieu who is France's greatest woman amateur; Miss E. L. Heinie who lives and plays in South Africa; rosy Fraulein Aussem of Germany, and the other Californian Helen, Miss Jacobs, who strained her back a few days before the tournament but did not think it would bother her and between whom...
Spain?Lilli de Alvarez, flashing, feline friend of Royalty...
...matches went on, Helen Wills and her sister Californian Edith Cross were roundly beaten by Elia de Alvarez and Kea Bouman, who won the doubles championship...
...Pioneer de la Revera sought out the Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. They placed him in contact with the proper authorities and upon simple declaration that he wished a divorce he received it within 20 minutes. The fee: 15?. "Now I can marry Martha!" exclaimed Senor Cesari Alvarez de la Revera, and within 24 hours...