Word: infanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnificence of Titian's Danae and the male craftiness of his Pope Paul III in last week's show confirmed the emperor's judgment. Philip IV, Habsburg King of Spain, had patronized Diego Velasquez, whose pictures of the king's little daughter, the stiffly costumed Infanta Margareta Teresa, were among the most brilliant and humanly pathetic portraits ever painted...
Command performances were agony. Once, playing before Portugal's Queen Amalia, Bauer found the court piano in such bad shape that half the keys stuck. At the Spanish court he had to struggle through a Beethoven sonata while twelve-year-old Alfonso XIII romped about him, and the Infanta Isabella chattered all the way through the piece ("How like Wagner . . . This reminds me of Chopin...
...afternoon concert of the Orchestra in rather a dim light. A program of Weber Ravel, Strauss, and Brahms is simply too great a dose of Romanticism to be swallowed comfortably in one sitting. Following close on the heels of the "Oberon" Overture, and Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Infanta," the usually brilliant "Till Eulenspiegel" was not setoff effectively and seemed trite rather than amusing. This unintended effect was partially realized by Dr. Koussevitzky's insistence upon attacking the Weber with the bombast and brilliance usually reserved for Wagnor's "Rienzi" or "Die Meistersinger." "Oberon's" poetry and lyricism were...
...when Royalty seeks laughs by bellowing "Shut up," to ha-ha when Hope tries on the mannerisms of a grand seigneur. Hope is a barber forced, for reasons too tortuous to relate, to impersonate the first swordsman and ladykiller of France. He is also supposed to marry the Spanish Infanta (Marjorie Reynolds), though he loves a scullery maid (Joan Caulfield...
...sparkling chandeliers and a barbershop floor inlaid with silver dollars. Potter Palmer was almost as proud of his House as he was of his wife-of whom he once said fondly: "There she stands, with $200,000 [in jewels] on her." Only once did his hotel fail him. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain cut short a visit with Mrs. Palmer, then the queen of Chicago society, because she was "the wife of an innkeeper...