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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than of a malignant traitor, and in spite of the somewhat excessive faces and eyes he makes. Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston) is as vivacious and as sweet as Desdemona should be, but she can't help looking a little mature. Euqal praise might be extended to Natalie Hall as Emilia and G. P. Huntley, Jr. as Cassio...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/1/1936 | See Source »

...London waitress named Emilia Tersini who won a judgment against him for $14,000 for breach of promise; and the fact that his plea of bankruptcy, shrewdly entered two weeks before the fight, was nonetheless unlikely to leave him free to spend his share of the $200,000 gate receipts.* The news of Camera's victory filled the front pages of Italian newssheets. Meeting in Rome, the International Boxing Federation declared Camera an Italian despite the fact that he once applied for French citizenship. Camera's mother wept when she heard the news. The new champion celebrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Camera v. Sharkey | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

Every character that appears on the screen is female, but the play does not suffer; Hertha Thiele interprets the part of Manuela with great talent and understanding, and the principal, Emilia Unda, brings a terrorizing sincerity to the role. Dorothea Wieck, who enacts the part of the friendly Fraulein von Bernburg, which appeals to every one in the audience, shows a fearless idealism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 6/9/1933 | See Source »

...Potsdam the state school for officers' daughters receives sensitive, 14-year-old Manuela von Meinhardis (Hertha Thiele). The principal (Emilia Onda) tries to turn out steel women to match Prussia's iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Startled newshawks heard Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson thus announce Nicaragua's Vice-Presidential candidates: "Conservative, Emilia Nocha Morro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espino Sar." Soon came a revised release: Conservative, Emiliano Chamorro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espinosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 26, 1932 | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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