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...female parts the percentage was higher, with Mildred Mueller contributing an excellent voice to the musically important role of Cherubino and Nancy Trickey and Margaret Goldovsky, who alternated in the part of Susanna, doing very criditable jobs. As the countess, Phyllis Curtin gave an in- and- out performance, muffing badly on the most important aria of the opera, Dove Sono...
...Even in adversity the Potocki's always cherished the arts. Wrote Countess Anna Potocka, a contemporary of Marie Antoinette: "When we had no money we sold our diamonds to buy marbles and bronzes...
Married. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 64, polo-playing former president of the Kreditanstalt, one-year Gestapo prisoner after Hitler's Anschluss; and Countess Hilda Auersperg, 44, onetime Austrian who became an American citizen; he for the first time, she for the third; in Locust Valley...
...woman who has in the last few months made an extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over the flower arrangement for the party, Salazar was so impressed by her taste that he wrote her a short note. She replied with a long letter and Salazar asked permission to call...
...when once a Countess bonny Lost her garter at the dance, Then they coined the motto "Honi Soit qui mal y pense...