Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance in Athens in July 1946, young Ridgeway, now 29, met Liana Maria Kremezi. Liana was known as the "Maid of Athens" because of her Resistance exploits during the war. On Sept. 21, they decided to be married. He gave her a ring bearing his family crest and made plans for her to follow him to England...
Then he died and there were squabbles over where to bury him-in Argentina, said his anti-Franco friends; in Spain, said the Spanish embassy. The Franco government won, and De Falla's sister Maria hustled back to Spain with a sackful of his belongings. Since then, she has lived in seclusion with her surviving brother German in the sleepy Andalusian village of San Fernando, jealously guarding a shabby bag which contains La Atlantida-comp-leted down to the last note...
...Blonde Mrs. Edith Maria Reuss Lord went into Manhattan supreme court with a tale of marital strife which sounded like a metropolitan replay of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Her manufacturer husband, Robert P. Lord, had armed men to bar her from their apartment, she said, so she had gathered up a squad of private detectives, recaptured the place and held it with a crew of shotgun-packing guards for eleven weeks...
...ballyhoo about the charm of Atlantis is completely lost on the screen. All that shows up are dingy rooms, some standard modern dance routines that are supposed to be pagan rituals, several hooded cloak and dagger men, and Maria Montez. Unless you consider Maria Montez the most fascinating women who ever lived, which I do not, the Atlantic image falls let. Miss Montez carefully avoids any acting and just stares blankly like a hungry cow. She seeks charm by making her clothes from veils and by using a Spanish accent, but Jean Pierre Aumont triumphs completely in the battle...
They turn up on the Sahara, where all good Legionnaires belong, get lost in that old sandstorm you remember from several other pictures, and wind up in mysterious Atlantis, Maria Montez rules this land with an iron bosom. She kills people right and left and has their bodies encased in metal for an interesting trophy room. Although she ensnares Jean Pierre Aumont, he manages to escape, and then tries to return for no better reason than to follow the "Lost Horizon" plot...