Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Count, he'd kill his wife (Judith Anderson) if he caught her in another man's arms, that's what he'd do. Just before the close of Act I, in another man's arms is exactly where Count Paolo catches the Countess. Only a playwright with the charmingly oblique Latin approach to such matters would have caused the Count to do what he next does. Afraid to kill his wife, afraid of public ridicule if he does not kill her. he packs her off to England, confesses to. her murder, stands trial, is acquitted...
...Died. Countess Tokiko Yamamoto, 73, Japanese "Cinderella"; of a stomach ulcer; in Tokyo. Third daughter of a poor fisherman, she was sold at 14 to the proprietor of a house in Tokyo's Yoshiwara (prostitution) district. A young naval officer fell in love with, kidnapped, married her. He became Admiral Count Gombei Yamamoto, twice (in 1913 & 1923) Premier of Japan...
When Patrick met Countess Marie at his father's place in Ireland they were much taken with each other, became engaged under her mother's unsuspecting nose. When she went back to Kossovia, Patrick followed to clinch matters. Arrived in Novograd, he found Marie's return had been delayed; meantime he discovered old schoolmates there and began to enjoy Kossovian society. Beautiful Eurydice had begun to attract him even before his airplane crash; afterwards, he had no eyes for anyone else and could not remember ever having seen Marie before. But Eurydice, having more political fish...
...TRAGEDY OF TOLSTOY-Countess Alexandra Tolstoy-Yale University Press ($3). Tolstoy's daughter (whom the Press lately rediscovered on her farm in Pennsylvania-TIME, Feb. 20) gives her version (more sympathetic than her mother's) of the late great Russian's last years...
...Countess-on-a-farm piqued the curiosity of half a dozen picture editors. Arrived at Newtown Square the cameramen found a ratty, dilapidated farmhouse, 200 years old, no electricity, no plumbing. They found the Countess a broad-beamed woman of middle age, with hazel eyes behind pince-nez glasses, and greying hair pulled back from her high forehead. Clad in a wool dress and old sweater she showed the newsmen the chicken house which she keeps clean, the wood she had chopped and the cow which follows her about like a pet. Countess and cow posed...