Word: maria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through quaint and Alpine Salzburg, in Austria, prowled last week a Manhattanite with a tiny cinema camera. While local mountaineers gawked he accosted a honey-haired Diana, persuaded her to pose before a crazily swung gate, "shot" Maria Jeritza...
...have been persistent rumors that he may marry. Why not? Last week rumors ran that he is "about to espouse a Swedish princess" (Astrid, 25, Martha, 20, and Ingrid, 16, are all available); and of course he might marry, said the rumormongers, Princess Giovanna, 19, but surely not Princess Maria, 12, of Italy. The press of the world has grown habituated to making itself ridiculous over Tsar Boris...
Senators Wadsworth (Rep.), Underwood (Dem.), Robinson (Dem.) added various shades of damnation to Mr. Haugen's Bill. Party and sectional lines were snapping. "Hell and Maria" Dawes sat uneasily in his chair- perhaps he wouldn't even get a chance to vote. He didn't. The bill was pronounced dead by a score of 45 to 39. The corn belt had lost its grip because three cotton fibres had deserted it, and the corn belt Senators were wroth...
This summer, Carl Maria von Weber has been dead a hundred years, but his name is much remembered. "There never was a more German composer than thou . . . The Briton does thee justice, the Frenchmen admires thee, but only the German loves thee."* In Germany, they are talking, singing, playing, reading Weber. Even during his lifetime, he and Bethovenšwere Germany's most popular composers. Weber's melodious songs influenced Wagner and his polonaises inspired Chopin...
Featured at the Pops tonight will be the Ave Maria of Schubert Wilhelm for violin, harp, organ and strings. The complete program follows: Entrance of the Guests into the Wart burg, "Tannhauser" Wagner Evening in Venice Thomas Evening in Venice Dunham Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Suite from "Carnaval" Schumann Preamble Pierrot Chopin Reconnaissance Sphinxes Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ, and Strings) Guitarre Moskovski Irish Rhapsody Herbert Dance of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Humoresque Dvorak Waltz, "Girls of Baden" Komzak