Word: mariane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Anita Handicap, a dozen of the most famed horses in the world, including Equipoise, Twenty Grand, Mate, Cavalcade, Statesman and Head Play, will run for the biggest purse ($100,000 added) offered this year. Lest these facts escape the attention of the U. S. sporting public, Cinemactress Marian Marsh last fortnight visited Santa Anita to have herself photographed with Head Play. Annoyed by her posturings, Head Play bit her on the shoulder. Last week, apparently less dismayed by Miss Marsh's experience than encouraged by the commotion it caused, Cinemactress Inez Courtney visited the track to hang...
Franca Somigli was Marian Bruce Clarke of Manhattan, whose Park Avenue aunt staked her to study in Italy. As Franca Somigli she sang three years at the Scala in Milan. In Chicago she had big dramatic roles in Andrea Chenier and Il Trovatore, both ill-suited to her delicate lyric voice. After the Trovatore criticisms, she was so cross that friends had to stop her from packing her bags and leaving Chicago...
...dissuaded when the pressagent, pretending that the affianced couple are expecting a child, exhibits a tiny sweater. The actress shudders eloquently. Hipper's Holiday (by John Crump; Marian T. Carter, producer) is an amateur effort to make a farce of an amateur kidnapping. A cowardly young hobo named Jim Hipper (Burgess Meredith) perpetrates the crime, but his victim is a tougher and slicker criminal than he. In the process of trying to get ransom without calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage...
...Raised to the purple in 1927, Cardinal Lepicier was shortly made head of the Congregation of the Religious?the Vatican's ministry in charge of all Catholic nuns and brothers. In this capacity and as a devout Servite he went to Portland last week to assist in the first Marian Congress ever held...
...Marian Congress resembles a Eucharistic Congress save that Mary rather than her Son is the central figure. The Portland Congress opened last week with a service in honor of Cardinal Lepicier in the Cathedral of St. Mary. To the Sanctuary went 25,000 people, for masses, processions, hymns, Marian sermons, disputations on Mariological topics. For all who wished a souvenir there were small yellow-bound copies of Cardinal Lepicier's work, Behold Thy Mother...