Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain recognized Revolutionist Vargas almost simultaneously (see p. 16). France followed a day later. The New Cabinet is considered "strong." Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco used to represent Brazil at League of Nations meetings, is the Brazilian diplomat best known in Europe. Minister of Finance Jose Maria Whitaker is a former President of the Banco do Brasil and of the Banco Commercial do Estado de Sao Paulo. Acts of the new Cabinet: 1) declared the Brazilian Congress retroactively dissolved on Oct. 3 last, the day the revolution began; 2) placed responsibility for payment of obligations incurred...
...Maria Jeritza, buxom blonde Metropolitan Opera singer, instituted legal proceedings against Dr. Muller Guttenbrunn at Vienna because she thought that his book Riff Raff, which deals with a family continually embroiled in lawsuits, defamed her. When she first heard the book was being written she had the Viennese censor scrutinize it; when it was published she obtained legal authority for its confiscation. Her reason for believing the book was detrimental to her: the author is a brother-in-law of a maid whom she dismissed from her home in Vienna...
Died. Alfonso Maria Cardinal Mistrangelo, 78, Archbishop of Florence; of gastric poisoning; in Florence, Italy...
...Norwegian Daland, capably acted the jovial sailor but disappointed with singing which, according to persons who had heard him in Europe, was below his standard. Hans Clemens, newcomer from Berlin, sang the minor role of a steersman and disproved the theory that there are no good German tenors. Soprano Maria Jeritza apparently believed in the hallucinations of Senta, lifted high the ghoulish scene of her meeting with the Dutchman, her promise to redeem...
...Metropolitan has ten new singers Sopranos are Beatrice Belkin, lately of "Roxy's Gang"; Olga Didur, daughter of Polish Basso Adamo Didur; Parisian Coloratura Lily Pons; Myrna Sharlow, native of Jamestown, N. Dak. Mezzo sopranos: Faina Petrova of the Moscow Art Theater, Maria Ranzow of Vienna. Tenors: Georges Thill of the Paris Opera; Hans Clemens of Berlin. Baritones Claudio Frigerio, native of Paterson, N. J., trained abroad. Basso: Ivar Andresen, famed throughout Europe for his Wagner...