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Word: carmencita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watch rehearsals of the Little Theatre there when she was ten years old. When she was 16 she was one of four chosen out of 400 applicants for admission to the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio. Morris Gest brought her to the U. S. in the Moscow Art play, Carmencita and Her Soldier; when it was booked in Los Angeles she took a screen test. In California she played the role of the nun in the road company of The Miracle. She was in Forgotten Faces, The Street of Sin. Emil Jannings likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Last week La Argentina made her U. S. debut† in Town Hall, Manhattan-a dusky curtain for her background, Pianist Carmencita Perez, billed as soloist of the Royal Spanish Court, to make her music. Pianist Perez played first but the evening began with the clicking of castanets in the wings and the gliding entrance of La Argentina. She was tired and languorous as the sun that used to warm her; she was glittering and remote; she was a primitive thing driving away evil spirits to the fire music made from de Falla's Amor Brujo, snapping her fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Creature & Castanets | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...thing", he had critical independence. An observer who called English trees "old Victorian ladies going perpetually to church in a land where it is always Sunday afternoon," he was more whimsy-realistic than imaginative. An artist who, to fasten the attention of a restless, primitive Spanish model (Dancer Carmencita), painted his nose red and ate his cigar, he had ingenuity, humor. An erect, burly, bearded man who waited days to cool off before thrashing an abusive farmer, _ he was gentle, temperate, poised, just. A portraitist who could block out, build up, polish and accent an oil masterpiece in one sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: John Sargent | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Boston Opera House--Moscow Art Musical Studio presents "Lysistrata" and "Carmencita", beginning March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 3/3/1926 | See Source »

Boston Opera House--Moscow Art Musical Studio presents "Lysistrata", and "Carmencita", beginning March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

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