Word: marias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bare offices of New York's Communist Opposition headquarters, to an oblong lecture room. There from door to door ran a set of 21 heavy, richly-colored fresco panels, a present to Communism by a man generally acknowledged to be the world's greatest muralist-Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta...
...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, on the stage, put on a lot of horseplay which, for people who like horseplay, is very good horseplay. The best thing in the whole program, despite its incongruity and questionable taste, is a solo rendition of the Ave Maria by Stuart Churchill, tenor of merit. There are some boop-o-doop girls and some bird imitators. The festive evening is rounded out with an inconceivably asinine organ solo, with words on the screen about the relative merits of Jamaica Plain and South Boston as places to call home. It all ends with a cheer...
Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Radetzky March was the leading best-seller there. Author Joseph Roth has now taken his place with Exiles Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Stefan Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, Success). On the strength of this book, critics would have put him among them anyhow...
...tale of a simple, loyal Austrian family whose sun rose and finally set by the old Emperor Francis Joseph. Grandfather Trotta, a Slovene peasant, was an infantry lieutenant who saved his Emperor's life at the battle of Solferino. He was ennobled and given the Order of Maria Theresa. When a children's reader appeared with a flattering but garbled account of his exploit, he resigned from the army, brought his only son up to be a civil servant. Son Trotta, all his life a good official against his will, brought Grandson Trotta up to be a soldier...