Word: marias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farrar left the Metropolitan. Greatest publicity has been given to an alleged row with Maria Jeritza, new Austrian import then, because Jeritza was given certain of Farrar's roles. But Farrar and Jeritza never met, the latter admired the U. S. singer tremendously, went often to hear her. The truth was that Farrar, sole relic of the Conried star system, was getting bits of discipline from the management. She herself was tired out, vocally, spiritually. The death of her mother had been difficult for her. There had been the divorce from Cinema-Hero Lou Tellegen* whom she married...
...Farrar herself has taken turns in the cinema, won much praise for her Carmen, Maria Rosa, The Woman God Forgot, The Devil's Stone, The Turn of the Wheel, The Hell Cat, Shadows, The Stronger Vow, Joan the Woman, and The Riddle Woman...
TIME is accurate. The square foot age of St. Peter's at Rome is 227, -069; of the Mesquita at Cordova 232,250, less about one-third for courtyard and cloisters; of Santa Maria de la Sede at Seville 128,570 of St. John the Divine at New York 109,082; of the Duomo at Milan 107,-000. The Mesquita, many pillared was at one time a mosque, the largest sacred building of the Mohammedans, after their Kaaba at Mecca When in the 16th Century the Mesquita, with many alterations, was transformed to a Roman Catholic cathedral, Emperor Charles...
Died. Lucy Maria Delano Hughes, 92, mother of Charles Frederick Hughes, commander in chief of the United States battle fleet; in Bath...
...Novelty came from Vienna, special import for Maria Jeritza. Erich Korngold, so it seemed, wrote it at the precocious age of 16; called it Violanta after his heroine, a lovely enough Venetian lady who hated and lusted and loved and died in such swift turn as to gray the hair of any onlooker. Jeritza played it for all there was there, took every phrase, every mood, tight between her teeth, shook them hard, tried to make them answer back, got small return...