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...bursting. All correspondents were shut out. Everyone inside was sworn to utter secrecy. An hour and a half later the Opera disgorged. That night it filled again with the same secrecy-sworn galaxy of leaders. They heard Tannhauser sung. To perform by special command of Der Reichsjilhrer, beauteous Prima Dona Maria Mueller, half German and half Czech, had been all but jerked off the boat on, which she was about to sail to Manhattan's Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Operatic Mystery | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...followed her sailor husband. Commander Ellis S. Stone, to the West Indies, Europe, China, is now stationed with him in Washington, D.C. Shapely, sprightly, a crackling talker, she has produced, besides a daughter, five books by the way (others: Letters to a Djinn, The Heaven and Earth of Dona Elena, The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French & Indian War | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

Belinda Dolores Del Rio Ginger Bell Ginger Rogers Fred Ayres Fred Astaire Carlos de Rezenda Walter Walker Dona Elena Rezenda Blanche Friderici...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/8/1934 | See Source »

...took the journey for his health, having just knifed a local scoundrel with an uncomfortably large number of brothers. It was a long, arduous, dangerous trip, but young Juan had the time of his life. He became immediately devoted to the Inspector-Gen-eral's wife, proud Dona Ysabel, and was given the job of guarding her only son. Dona Ysabel's family motto appealed to him: "We fear no King, nor any devil; only God when He is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old California | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...journey Juan's adored Dona Ysabel gave him a farewell letter; he could not read it but would let no one else so much as look at it. At the end of his story he says: "I have treasured it all my life, like nothing else I have ever had. There is one grandchild of Heraclio's who seems to me clean inside and out. If she learns to read Spanish well, and at 16 seems to be what she now is, I may trust her to read this letter of Dona Ysabel's to me; though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old California | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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