Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiddles & horns, conductors & opera stars last week entered the competition between General Motors and Henry Ford. Their start was simultaneous-Sunday 8 p. m. E. S. T. The Detroit Symphony fought for Ford, with Conductor Victor Kolar, yellow-haired Maria Jeritza. 24 choristers. G. M. assembled its own orchestra, hired spectacular Leopold Stokowski to wave his pale hands over it and Tenor Richard Crooks to sing. Soloists will vary in the expensive radio bout. G. M. has a starry list of conductors. Ford will stick to Victor Kolar, Ossip Gabrilowitsch's hard-working associate, who conducted at A Century...
...amber lights. They suit her reddish brown hair, large brown eyes, full red lips. Her private wardrobe is more fantastic. She has so many dresses that she need never wear the same one twice in a year. Her dresses are by Jeanne Lanvin and Rochas, her hats by Maria-Guy and Louise-Bourbon, her bags by Venry, her lingerie by Albison, her shoes by Capobianco, her jewels (mostly sapphires and rubies) by Ostertag...
...which the treatment and setting subordinate the plot and acting. The story is based on an ancient legend of the Dolomite mountain-folk, that of the fatal attraction of the "blue light" which shines forth from the craggy peak of Mount Christallo, luring the young men of Santa Maria to their deaths. Only one person had climbed to the top and uncovered the secret of the mountain, a comely Italian girl, banished from the village for suspicion of witchcraft. One day a young artist, attracted by her beauty, followed her to the "light" and discovered its cause, moonlight reflected through...
Canada and Peru saw two Secretaries of State before they rose to office-Cardinals Merry del Val and Gasparri. In 1823 there arrived in Chile a priest named Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. who was to become Pope Pius IX ("Pio Noro"). In Buenos Aires wise Catholics will gaze speculatively on the austere features of Cardinal Pacelli, for he will undoubtedly be a man to be reckoned with when the present Pope, now 77, dies and the Princes of the Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor...
Born. To Umberto, 30, Crown Prince of Italy, and Marie Jose, 28, Princess of Piedmont, sister of King Leopold of the Belgians: their first child; in Naples. Name: Maria...