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...show from backstage she won’t be able to spare the hour and a half necessary to create the traditional updo and makeup required of a Ballet Folklórico dancer—she will perform in the Danza Azteca piece “El Águila.” Wearing feathers and dancing as an eagle as a performance for the Aztec gods she will take part in a “tradition carried over for generations and generations...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marisol Pineda '08 | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...coinage, a move that would help the mining industry. His best piece of news had been written into the address at the last minute: after a nine-year controversy, Mexico had finally settled the oil expropriation row with Britain. For Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary, the El Águila Petroleum Co., Mexico would pay $81,250,000 over the next 15 years, plus 3% interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Report to the Nation | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Ernest Schelling (Sat. 11 a. m. CBS) conducts the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra in a mainly Mendelssohn program with Guila Bustabo, 19-year-old violinist, as soloist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Guila Bustabo, a 14-year-old Chicagoan who looks like Artist Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland, played the violin brightly for an audience which included Violinist Fritz Kreisler and three Philharmonic conductors-Erich Kleiber, Ernest Schelling, Arturo Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigious Week | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...Guila's mission ended, she brings her visit to a close; while the youth of the village find new joy in the spirit she has awakened within them and the outraged savants with a sigh of relief return to their pondering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAY OF SPANISH ORIGIN | 4/15/1921 | See Source »

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