Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public in Britain. A Warsaw paper, Express Wieczorny, took up the Daily Worker's cry under a headline: "One Wife and Five Mistresses," asserting that Cavendish-Bentinck had "five women, each in a different country." Next, the Polish Government arrested Cavendish-Bentinck's 56-year-old translator, Maria Marynowska, hinting that she was implicated in the Grocholski "plot...
...American womanhood got a kind word from Visitor Maria Romano de Gasperi, 23-year-old daughter of Italy's visiting Premier. She had thought the girls who came to Italy-"so nice, so full of life"-were exceptions; now she found that "these qualities are peculiar to all American women." She also admired their clothes. "But I think," she added, "that American women look better when they wear sport clothes than when they try to look sophisticated...
...Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages and who is especially well-known in English, is the subject of a current exhibit in the showcase of Widener and Houghton Libraries. The display commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the poet's death...
...same issue, I quote from the Books Department: "Erich Maria Remarque gave middle-agedly of his bnght-but-second-best in Arch of Triumph...
Victor, with an eye to the big spenders, brought out a "Heritage Series" of wheezing reissues from opera's so-called "Golden Age" at $3.50 a disc (with gold labels). Pressed from musty masters are Soprano Frances Alda's gracefully sung Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello (recorded in 1910) and Baritone Mario Ancona's Eri tu from The Masked Ball (1907). Even scratchier is Luisa Tetrazzini's carelessly sung Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro (1908). Enrico Caruso's faltering Rachel, quand du seigneur, from La Juive, was recorded...