Word: mares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even ardent Verdians are apt to titter when, in the lush triumphal scene of Aïda, a gaudily festooned white horse clatters on the boards of the stage. But to Anna, the mare which for almost 25 years has appeared at the Metropolitan in Aïda, that scene is serious stuff. In her younger days Anna also acted in Ben Hur and The Sheik. Last week, Anna, 36 years old, had a birthday party fit for a queen...
Henry Brocken, His Travels and Adventures (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue). Poet Walter De La Mare's story adapted for radio by Patrick Riddell, set to music by Dr. Armstrong Gibbs...
...Teddington, outside London, one day last week was a well-publicized ride by a well-clothed modern Lady Godiva. Hundreds of amused spectators lined the sidewalks as 13-year-old Mirabelle Muller, in flesh-colored trunks, brassière and long flaxen wig, mounted an old grey mare and ambled through the streets. No Peeping Tom peeked but a Prissy Peter caused lady and mare trouble...
...knot of sidewalk spectators bustled a puritanical gaffer. He grabbed Lady Godiva's wrist, clawed at her dangling bare leg: "Down with this sacrilege; wearing nothing but a bathing suit! This is supposed to be a God-fearing country." Lady Godiva's father, marching beside the mare, knocked the old man to the pavement. The crowd pinned him down. As police dragged the oldster to safety he shrieked: "How dare they do that to a little girl of 13? Poor little innocent-making an exhibition of herself at that tender age! I think it's awful." Unabashed...
Politics. D'Annunzio had been elected Deputy from Ortona de Mare in 1897. Fellow legislators dubbed him "The Deputy of Beauty." He took his seat on the Right but one day the tumult and shouting from the Socialist benches impressed him. He stilled the Chamber. "I walk toward life," he announced, and in full drama crossed over to the Left. But he did not stay long, quit Socialism and politics...