Word: infanta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother Philippe of Gascony (Louis Hayward) into a fine broth of a boy, next to his tutor d'Artagnan the best blade in France. Brother Louis at first finds Brother Philippe useful as a decoy for assassins and as a stand-in with his betrothed, the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett), while he is dallying with brassy little Louise de la Vallière (Marian Martin...
...Tannhauser," Entrance of the Guests into the WarburgWagner *Scherzo from the "Eroica" Symphony, No. 3 Beethoven *Sandman's Song and Evening Prayer, from "Hansel and Gretel Humperdinck *Seventh Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnbert" Wagner *Pavane for a Dead Infanta Ravel *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltzes Stranss *"Deep Rive" Arranged by Jacchia *"Up the Street," March Morse *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Lean, greying John Alden Carpenter, who has flirted gracefully with jazzy and other folk idioms (The Birthday of The Infanta, Krazy Kat, Skyscrapers, Adventures in a Perambulator), dislikes being called a "businessman-composer." Though he helped carry on the family ship chandler business, Composer Carpenter has been an earnest musician and a musical institution in Chicago for some 25 years. Last week he gave his native city the first big work he had composed since 1933, a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. His good friend, Zlatko Balokovic, Yugoslav violinist, played the Concerto. A friendly audience applauded. Respectful Chicago critics agreed...
Meanwhile the ravening reporters were handled on the Conte di Savoia with the utmost neatness by Victoria Eugenie's son-in-law, Italian Prince Alessandro TorIonia, and his wife the Spanish Infanta Beatriz. Nothing of a nature detrimental to the Duchess of Toledo was discovered and the Press considered it of "human interest" that on the voyage the Infanta Beatriz had played privately on the musical saw and Queen Victoria Eugenie had permitted herself to be publicly amused at the ship's concert by long-nosed Buffoon Jimmy Durante. Passengers told how a contingent of Spanish Monarchist youths...
...told you, Peter-because they were mad," replied the flustered Infanta...