Word: marias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scarcely a sovereign in Europe is so wisely and graciously parsimonious as Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange, Queen of the Netherlands. Her favorite Palace, at The Hague, has such an air of whitewashed simplicity that non-Dutch-speaking tourists have been known to leave the city under the impression the Court resides at the late Mr. Carnegie's far more sumptuous Peace Palace. The tastes of the Prince Consort (Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin) are likewise circumscribed within the same prudent limits. Hence, when a large appropriation was recently placed at the disposal of the royal pair to be expended...
...whole he acquitted himself admirably, went in one afternoon to the head of the Metropolitan's class of availables for German tenor roles. An audience whose faith in German tenors has been badly shaken, took new hope, applauded him gratefully; saved its noisiest, most unrestrained approval for Maria Jeritza making as Elisabeth her last operatic appearance of the season...
...life of Maria Bismarck, however, was overshadowed so completely by her father that only where they appeared together is she likely to appear in history at all. They used to sing duets a great deal. Perhaps their singing will be suppressed by historians; for he taught her a great many English, French and German student songs. One was not orthodox...
Curtain Cord. While Germans rejoiced at their Government's declaration, there developed out of the affair, a notable scandal at the famed Film and Stage Supper Club, Berlin. The Marchesa Gabriele di Serra Mantschedda entered with two Italian actors and her sister, Maria Orska, the famed and darkly brilliant Russo-Polish actress, long popular in Berlin. While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from...
Friends smuggled them out, somehow, while the German comedian, Eugene Bourg, incited a crowd of Berliners to chase them to their hotel. Later the same night Maria Orska quarreled with her sister, informed her that she could hardly carry on with so impolitic a business manager. Next morning the Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda was found swinging from the curtain cord of a window in her apartment. She had hanged herself...