Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Maria Ward Curley, 92, mother of Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore; in Athlone, Ireland...
...last January, no new ones were made. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera took its pick of the available artists, signed up for next year Soprano Frida Leider, Tenor Tito 'Schipa, Baritone Richard Bonelli (TIME, May 30). Lately the Metropolitan engaged also German Soprano Lotte Lehmann and stately Contralto Maria Olszewska. The Philadelphia Opera will probably get Tenor Paul Althouse for at least part of its season, and Baritone John Charles Thomas who will also sing in concert and radio...
...explanation may be with Europe's greater population (550,000,000 to 122,775,000 which statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism, which seems to be less common than dwarfism. Giants and dwarfs are as a rule sterile. Henrietta Maria, queen to King Charles I of England was curious about the fertility of her dwarfs, ordered her pet, Richard Gibson to marry another pet, Anne. The Gibsons together measured 7 ft. 2 in. They had nine children, of whom five lived. The five attained normal stature. Queen Catherine de Medici in a spirit...
Like football fans waiting to hear who will play in the backfield, Manhattan operagoers have been waiting to hear what stars would sing in the Metropolitan's long-debated 1932-33 season. Last week as he sailed for Europe Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced the changes. Soprano Maria Jeritza will no longer sing with the company. Mr. Gatti has had to cut his cloth to fit a season one-third shorter than usual. Jeritza and 26 others whose contracts expired have been dropped from the roster. Tenor Beniamino Gigli had a long-term contract but he chose to leave...
...Long, Long Trail,"- is busy making an opera out of Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson's riproaring What Price Glory? In Vienna Composer Robert Russell Bennett (Kansas City) will spend the summer writing music for a libretto by smart, versatile Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker. Maria Melbern, an oldtime Spanish prima donna, will be the heroine. The scene will be downtown Manhattan in the early 19th Century...