Word: madonna
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...nice; why, he seemed positively mocking. Why did he not stop singing when she spoke to him? The cobbler, leering, continued his chant, and standing at his counter Miss Davis suddenly recognized the aria. "Ah, Gioielli . . . gioielli della Mad-ho-ho-han-ah. . . ." Jewels of the Madonna! She remembered now. The rings, the brooches-she had left them in the toe of her shoe. Arrested, Louis D'Ascali denied his guilt...
...hard clink of money Passing from fist to fist. Rather it is the beauty Of an old, old woman in a black mantilla; Of an old, old woman with unutterable wisdom Behind her wordless reticence; who lights a candle In token of prayer before a faded picture of the Madonna. Or it is humble beauty- A flock of goats tumbling down a slope At twilight; or a silent beauty Of wine-dark shadows shed on purple hills...
...Southerners socially and musically inclined were ready for them, flocked from all over the countryside to hear Aida, with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli; Don Quichotte, with Feodor Chaliapin; La Bohême, with Lucrezia Bori, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti; Pagliacci, with Mary Lewis, Armand Tokatyan, Lawrence Tibbett; Jewels of the Madonna, with Florence Easton and Martinelli; Lucia, with Marion Talley; Tannhauser, with Rudolf Laubenthal; II Trovatore...
...year before she had won Queen Mary's consent to her entering the "flickers" (cinema). A husband was by no means a whole career for her. She talked of self-expression, said the cinema was "the most real form of romance modern life expresses." When invited to play the Madonna, which she alternates with the Nun in The Miracle, she "felt almost as though I had a vocation to act the part...
...Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...