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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Castanets | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Berkeley's Firsts | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 4, 1930 | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fame's Return | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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