Word: maria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cold November day in 1885, King Alfonso XII breathed his last as the oppressive gloom of winter settled over Madrid. His royal spouse, the Habsburg Maria Christina, became Regent for her five-year-old daughter Maria-de-las Mercedes. In Spain, the season of the people's discontent was upon them. Progressive ideas were seething in reactionary cauldrons. Under a Queen such as little Maria, who was sure to be dominated all her life by her mother's ideas, Spain could only expect to see the new wine of her progressive aspirations poured down the neck of the grandee...
...Since the eclipse will not be total in Cambridge," he continued, "we are cooperating with the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, which lies in the path of the total eclipse. Two of us expect to go there, while Professor Shapley will travel to an observatory in the western part of the state or in eastern New York...
...first time in the U. S., Jenufa, opera by Leos Janáćek, Czecho-Slovakian composer, was given at the Metropolitan. Grand were the persons of the cast; gorgeous the scenery; the music clever, racy, innocent of melody. In the title role was yellow-haired Maria Jeritza; Mmes. Margaret Matzenauer and Kathleen Howard and Messrs. Rudolf Laubenthal and Martin Ohman supported her. A grand house applauded. Critics commended. Plot. In a Moravian village lived Jenufa, the prettiest girl in the countryside, in whose grey glance lodged witchery. She was loved by Stewa, village stew, and by his brother Laca...
Pedro is a Spanish version of many of the great tyrants of Italy, sensitive to beauty, patrons of the arts, commanding in personality, but calculating, cruel and dissolute. In spite of all Pedro maintains his nobility, his sensitiveness, and as champion of the common people and constant lover of Maria, he remains a sympathetic figure...
Aside from that of Mr. Sanchez the best characterization is that of the Queen by Doris Halman. Rita Nolan does well with the difficult role of Maria, though lacking somewhat in distinction. Able support is given by G. S. Curtis as the Dwarf, and by H. S. Smith as Enrique as well as by many others of the numerous company. The principal fault of the actors is in enunciation, and it is to be feared that many of the lines were lost by those at all far removed from the stage. As is to be expected in so large...