Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain on a small bier. And in dozens of other operas "Maman" Maria Savage is a familiar figure to music-loving New Yorkers. She is one of the 105 hard-drilled men & women who swarm the stage...
Underneath their heavy coifs tears trickled down their cheeks last week as Sister Neophyta, 56 (born Maria Menke), now Mother Superior of the Order of St. Augustine at Cologne, and Sister Englatia, 57 (born Gertrud Dohm), faced their judges in Berlin's Criminal Court. The charge: smuggling 200,000 paper marks out of Germany contrary to the Reich's foreign exchange regulations...
First president of the union was Maria Gonzalez. A tall, angular woman of 29 notably lacking in sex appeal, she operates a room or as she prefers to call it a "ship" within Mexico City's tolerance zone. Loudly last week she issued her strumpet call...
Died. Mrs. Maria Y. Dougall, 84, oldest surviving daughter of Mormon Brigham Young; in Salt Lake City. Of the 56 children born to Young and his 19 wives, four sisters and two brothers survive...
...blood to perk up their ears at these echoes of "the Forty-five." Author Mackenzie's is not a formal history of the Young Pretender but a series of portraits of the women who made up a large part of his life. Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Maria (1720-1788), like most royalty, was less racially pure than many of his subjects. His mother, Princess Clementina, was German-Polish, the granddaughter of John Sobieski, famed Turk-toppler. From her Prince Charlie inherited his charm, his love of adventure. Clementina's marriage with Pretender James was a runaway...