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Then Irene's maid leaves. Author de Céspedes is so skilled that she can make this trite crisis the means of her restless heroine's selfdiscovery. The maid, Erminia, is a simple village girl who likes her mistress but finds her life confusing. She leaves to take a job with a woman who is a tyrant but at least leads a recognizable life: mistress of the house but subordinate to her husband, the master. Through Erminia's desertion. Irene comes to see that tedious family convention is not necessarily more depressing than her own joyless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Room of One's Own | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Died. Donna Erminia Monti De Bono, wife of Marshal Emilio De Bono, Fascist Party veteran; in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 24, 1941 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...performance by the Fine Arts Opera Company.* There Russian singers, singing in Russian, under the skilled baton of the Russian Jacques Samossoud found high favor. It mattered little to the Russian listeners that the opera is episodic and disjointed, lacking in theatrical unity; that Lisa's soprano (Eugenia Erminia Erganova) had a metallic edge and that Tenor Herman (Dimitri Criona) had to wheeze through a cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pique-Dame | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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