Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five U.S. pictures have brought her to an enviable position, which, for better or worse, her present role destroys for her forever. Hitherto people have liked her with the illusion of personal discovery: she has been the most widely recognized unrecognized player in the country. Everybody waited for her Maria with almost unhealthily sharpened interest...
...Died. Maria Cecilia ("Cissie") Loftus, 66, famed theatrical impersonator; in Manhattan. A London favorite at 16, she was a star there and on Broadway for some 40 years. First of her two husbands was playwright Justin Huntley McCarthy, in whose If I Were King she played opposite E. H. Sothern. She succeeded Ellen Terry as Sir Henry Irving's leading woman...
...Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return to political confinement after attending his uncle's funeral, barricaded himself in Galo's house and dared authorities to come...
...several years in Milan one Maria Miama has gone round telling rapturous tales of seeing the Blessed Virgin, getting messages from...
...lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, than Katharine Cornell engages in a bit of Romeo and Juliet with a soldier who remembers his Shakespeare. Ethel Waters has scarcely finished syncopating with Count Basic's Afric jazz band when Yehudi Menuhin steps forward to render Schubert's Ave Maria on his expensive violin...