Word: antonia
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Castanets commanding and enticing, sleek black gowns, ruffled white gowns, gowns with all the colors of a peacock's tail-with these to Manhattan last week returned Dancer Argentina (real name: Antonia Merce) who again will tour as far as the Pacific Coast, give some 50 recitals. At the end of last season Argentina underwent an appendectomy, a proceeding dangerous for a dancer none too young. Special care was taken not to cut a muscle and she is just as agile as before. Her great pride this year is the little red ribbon which she wears on every coat...
Engaged. Boris (III) Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislaus Zavier, 36, Greek Orthodox King and Tsar of the Bulgarians, Duke of Saxe; and the Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria, 22, Roman Catholic daughter (third) of King Vittorio Emanuele & Queen Elena of Italy; by permission of the King & Queen of Italy...
...Theatre-the gift of Publisher William Randolph Hearst-in seven years. Snug in overcoats, the audience found the renditions of Weber, Rimsky-Korsakov and Wagner workmanlike but uninspired, applauded the occasion rather than the music. For it was a night of records. The conductor was black-haired, bright-eyed Antonia Brico, first woman ever to conduct Berlin's philharmonic orchestra, first woman to conduct San Francisco's symphony orchestra, first California graduate to conduct that organization at Berkeley...
Awarded. To Antonia Merce (La Argentina), famed Spanish danseuse; by France: the Cross of the Legion of Honor, for "her superlative and artistic genius and generosity to French charities"; the first Spanish woman to receive this honor...
...Real name: Antonia Merce. Born in Buenos Aires, she is one of the few Argentinians who have pure Spanish blood. Her father, onetime premier danseur at the Madrid Opera, was a Castilian; her mother an Amlulasian...