Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zealand with an itinerant company, then Leonide Massine made him the leading dancer in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. That brought him to America, where he was drafted and became a Navy physical-education instructor. He is married to ex-Ballerina Anna Scarpova. Their ten-month-old daughter Maria, Youskevitch says, "stays on her pointes very good." During his first week with the new Ballet Theater company Youskevitch appeared only in three short pas de deux with Ballerinas Alicia Alonso and Nora Kaye. For the rest of the season he will dance leads in the classic ballets: Swan Lake...
...colony of Lilliputians is located on a tiny lake-island in a vast English estate-among the now-ruined "Vistas, Obelisks, Pyramids . . . Rotundas, and Palladian Bridges" through which Pope, Dr. Johnson, Boswell and Garrick once roamed. The present-day heiress to the tumbledown estate is ten-year-old Maria, "one of those tough and friendly people who do things first and think about them afterward." The plot of Mistress Mas ham's Repose revolves around the efforts of Maria's fiendish guardians to abduct the Lilliputians and sell them to Hollywood...
...book's charm lies in Author White's nostalgic evocation of 18th Century life, his knowledge of animal and country lore (in private life he is an ardent naturalist), and his ability to make genuinely dramatic such absurdities as the thrilling rescue of Maria by the Lilliputian rat-cavalry. The best things in Mistress Masham's Repose are the mischievous parodies of human clichés-of-thought-as when Captain, a dog, muses on the virtues of his owner, the cook...
Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales (in 1876), Gwen John preferred Paris. There she divided her life between painting in her monastic quarters and praying in a Roman Catholic chapel around the corner. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lent her books now & then, and she corresponded with "Dear Master" Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain, but her only constant company was cats. She was careful to remember the cats in her will...
...pronto. One Enrique Sanchez del Monte, 47, a wealthy sugar and cattle man, confessed that he had paid thugs $3,000 for the Valdés attempt, $5,000 for the boy's death. Furthermore, he had offered $6,000 for the murder of his beautiful ex-wife Maria who escaped to the U.S. with their two daughters last fortnight. His motive, if true, looked like Balzacian revenge. Valdés and the boy's lawyer-father had won Maria her divorce and custody of the two children...