Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throws in two more popular pieces Midnight in Paris and I Carry You in My Pocket but soon comes up with Vesti la Giubba, and then rises to E lucevan le stelle in Tosca at the Metropolitan. Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink inter polates Brahms's Lullaby, and Dancers Maria Gambarelli and Vincente Escudero do their specialties...
...Freudian theory of dreams, he began to produce pictures of his own, became the No. 1 cineman of Hungary after the War. This trifling distinction served as a mild irritant. He went to Vienna, made a hit called The Prince and the Pauper, married an actress named Maria Farkas, moved on to Berlin to work for UFA, arrived in Hollywood as a director for First National in 1925. After a series of mildly successful pictures, of which the most notable was The Private Life of Helen of Troy, he joined Fox. By 1930 he had lost his job, most...
...sale, the Spanish Republic's subsequent act in confiscating the Jesuit headquarters, under the impression that it still belonged to the outlawed Society of Jesus, was invalid and the property must be handed back to Mr. Quatrocchi. He was represented in Madrid last week by Lawyer José Maria Gil Robles, Spain's pious Minister...
Last week President Karleton Hackett of the Chicago City Opera Company announced a five-week season to begin in November in the Civic Opera House. Top price: $3. President Hackett said negotiations had been opened with Bori, Lehmann, Pons, Maria Jeritza, Claudia Muzio, Rosa Raisa, Tito Schipa, Ezio Pinza, John Charles Thomas. The repertory will include the U. S. première of Respighi's La Fiamma, Puccini's La Rondine, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
...Married. Maria Jeritza, 41, Austrian opera singer, longtime prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, divorced wife of Baron Leopold von Popper de Podhragy of Hungary; and Winfield Richard ("Winnie") Sheehan, 51, onetime New York World police reporter, long-time (1926-35) vice president of Fox Films in charge of production until his recent resignation (TIME,, July 29); in Santa Barbara, Calif...