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...Prime Minister Manuel Godoy. There are portraits of Alba in the show, though neither, alas, of the great standing figures, white and black, from the Alba collection in Madrid and the Hispanic Society in New York City. We must be content with The Duchess of Alba and "La Beata," 1795, the enchanting picture of Alba at play, her black fleece of curls cascading down her back--"There is not a hair on her head," wrote a French visitor to Madrid, "that does not excite desire"--tormenting her pious old servant, la Beata, with a red coral charm for repelling...
MONTEVERDI: VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE, 1610 (Archiv Produktion). 2 CDs. The Vespers of 1610 is easily the most virtuosic, enthralling and glorious liturgical composition before Bach's Passions. John Eliot Gardiner leads a large and splendid assortment of soloists, choristers and instrumentalists in this kinetically irresistible and revelatory performance...
...Beatrice, waiting to guide him. However, according to Pre-Raphaelite principles, it was necessary for Rossetti to square this vision of a women with the likeness of a living person. He found his answer in the person of Elizabeth Siddal, who was eventually to become his wife. Pictured in "Beata Beatrix" with the figures of Dante and Love behind her, Elizabeth Siddal eventually proved a less than ideal Madonna. Jealous of his work and diverting him from it by continual illness, she committed suicide after two years of marriage. Another woman soon replaced her; Rossetti became fascinated with Janie Morris...
These little gems of solace and advice are produced by six Chicagoans of prominence whom Editor Malloy talked into counseling the trouble-smitten. The advisers: Judges Joseph Sabath and Justin F. McCarthy; Debutante Judy Waller; University of Chicago Coed Beata Mueller; Jessie Binford, "mother" of Chicago's Juvenile Court; and Mrs. Leo P. Cummings, mother of eleven. To do the anonymous but necessary paper work, Editor Malloy transplanted from his woman's page kindly little Mary Dougherty, a veteran of newspapering who once ran her own feature syndicate...
Behind locked doors on the 13th floor of Chicago's Garrick Building, members of the Cook County Women's Christian Temperance Union met excitedly one afternoon last week. Notably absent from the meeting was the group's president, dimpled, thin-haired Mrs. Beata Brucer, 45. Against her the Cook County W. C. T. U. was deliberating grave charges...