Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last three queens of England have all known comparative poverty in girlhood. Everyone remembers that Alexandra was the daughter of a petty prince who by a fluke became King of Denmark, and that she used to scrimp and help her sister make dresses before the latter became the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias and Alexandra herself Britain's Queen Empress. But everyone does not remember a far more important fact: that in the same bedroom at Kensington Palace which Victoria the Great used as a girl was born Mary the Good, daughter of her first cousin, the Duchess...
Born. To Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti Ugolini, niece of Pope Pius XI; a daughter, Maria Rio Pia. His Holiness sent his majordomo with blessings for his grandniece and namesake...
...Metropolitan Opera plans. A list of operas likely to be added to the repertoire was published by Edward Gushing (pseudonym: Suetonius Jr.), able critic and newsgatherer of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. It included Massenet's Herodiade and Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, operas in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will presumably have the leading roles; Strauss's Elektra with Soprano Gertrude Kappel, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Otello, Rossini's William Tell and Bohemian Jaroslav Weinberger's Schwanda, Der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe-player), never given in the U. S. New European...
Engagement Rumored. Infanta Maria Cristina Teresa Alejandra Guadelupe Maria de la Concepcion Ildefonsa y Victoria-Eugenia, 18, second daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Nicholas of Rumania, 26; at Bucharest...
...Next meeting of the Pan-American Medical Association will be at Lima, Peru, beginning Jan. 31, 1931. President is C. Paz-Soldan of Peru, president at large Maria Fernandez of Cuba...