Word: marias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having over 3,000 rebels shot, felt that the least he could do was to receive Lord Listowel & Commission in his private rooms at the Cortes. Spanish blood was up, Spanish honor at stake. Same afternoon, in the Cortes, Spain's No. 1 Catholic politician, Fascist José Maria Gil Robles, leader of the Catholic Popular Actionists, was as hot as any Spanish Communist against foreign probing of Spain's private atrocities. "Down with these Listowels!" roared Gil Robles, "put them across our frontier...
...could have recalled many historic scenes: plump little Marcella Sembrich making her operatic farewell; Enrico Caruso singing his last, as the bearded Jew in Halévy's La Juive; Geraldine Farrar appearing in Die Königskinder with a flock of real, live geese (TIME, Nov. 12); Maria Jeritza giving her first breath-taking Tosca; Marion Talley making her début with mounted police handling the sidewalk crowds outside the dingy opera house...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatrix Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 25, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonia, 23, of Rome, son of Manhattan's Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia...
...working day & night to finish a 500-lb. copper and bronze coffin for the body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon...
Married. Count Franco Ratti, nephew of Pope Pius XI, engineer, director of the Vatican City Technical Services; and Angela Maria Crespi, daughter of Tycoon-Senator Silvio Crespi of Milan; by the Pope, who had not performed a marriage ceremony for eight years; in the great Consistorial Hall of Vatican City...