Word: conchita
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other operas new to the Chicago repertoire will be Mascagni's Iris with Edith Mason, Antonio Cortis, Giacomo Rimini. Virgilio Lazzari; Riccardo Zandonai's Conchita with Rosa Raisa; Massenet's Don Quichotte with Vanni-Marcoux, Hallie Stiles and Desire Defrere...
...Blasco Ibanez-Button ($2.00). Ibanez has had excellent motion pictures made from at least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely) that...