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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, a smiling American woman in street costume approached the door of the basilica Santa Maria Maggiore. She stopped before it, a shade of anxiety passed over her features; she turned away and left. Two others repeated the same sequence of emotions. On the door was posted a notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Notes, Sep. 14, 1925 | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...back-hedges of the burghers of Juvissy, France, little Gabrielle Renaudot, a spindling girl with legs like matches, hempen ringlets and immense brown eyes peering from the wan mask of her face, would pause, with furtive admiration, to watch the famed astronomer meditating in his kitchen-garden. Her mother, Maria Latini, the original of Henri Regnault's famed painting, Salome, was a friend of Flammarion's. When she died, little Gabrielle went to the great man for advice and counsel. Was she fond of Science ? That was what he wanted to know. Ah, she would give her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Madame Flammarion | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...Vienna, Soprano Maria Olszewska -she who, annoyed by Maria Jeritza's loud interruptions at a performance of Die Walküre, assailed the latter with a shot of saliva and was forthwith dismissed from the Vienna Staatsoper (TIME, May 25)-last week was reinstated. Offered part of her back pay, she accepted it but announced that, rather than use any of the management's "dirty" money for herself, she would give it to charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Abroad | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...week, the Iberian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came into being for the express purpose of warring on bullfighting. Paradox upon paradox, the Society was headed by no less a person than H.R.H. The Prince of Asturias, the Heir-Apparent, and T.R.H. The Infantas Beatrix and Maria Cristina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Bulls | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...welcome a returning singer. The local press published a diatribe, mentioning in angry terms certain incidents in her past. Exasperated crowds lined the streets through which she drove. When she sang at the opera house, a police cordon was considered necessary to keep her from violence. She was Madame Maria Jeritza who, though born in Brünn, early showed that she had no Czech complex by wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Czech | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

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