Word: maria
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Born. To Senator Guglielmo and the Marchioness Maria Cristina Marconi: a daughter. Name: Maria Electra Elena Anna. Godmother: Italy's Queen Elena. She is the first child of the Marchioness, there being three other Marconis (a son, two daughters) by the inventor's first wife...
...nitrates. Their key company, Anglo- Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corp., has bulked larger and larger in the industry. Last fall it clinched its leadership by buying control of Lautaro Nitrate Co. Ltd., biggest producer of Chilean nitrate. Even before that, however, the Guggenheims had started their Oficina Maria Elena Plant working in 1926 with the epochal Guggenheim Process...
Married. General Emilio Aguinaldo, famed Philippine insurrectionist (1899-1901); To his third wife, Senorita Maria Agoncillo, 49, sister of much-moneyed landowning Filipino Gregorio Agoncillo; at Manila...
Journey's End. In Santa Maria, Calif, last week, Major Charles Kingsford-Smith presented his world-girdling monoplane Southern Cross to Capt. G. Allan Hancock, wealthy banker and oil operator, who had bought and loaned the plane to him for the California-Australia flight of 1928. When the Southern Cross landed safely in Australia, Capt. Hancock cabled Major Kingsford-Smith full title to it. Capt. Hancock, who took up flying as a result of his association with the Southern Cross crew, later gave Santa Maria an airport, established there an air college...
Four new operas will be added to the repertoire: Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, based on the novel of George du Maurier, in which will appear Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, a comic opera in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will appear as a male impersonator; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk, also a comic opera based on a story by Gogol; Le Preziose Ridicole, based on Molière's play...