Word: marias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was done in Szolnok, Hungary, last week to Frau Maria Kardos, first of the famed group of Hungarian female poisoners arrested 14 months ago (TIME, Dec. 9, 1929) to be executed. Frau Kardos was convicted of poisoning her 22-year-old son and her second husband, suspected of also poisoning her first husband...
Books. Anyone who reads Spanish should read these outstanding Cuban .books: Novelist Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes; Poet Jose Maria Heredia's Niagara; Scientist Carlos de la Torre's Historia Natural de Cuba...
...Lily Pons's first performances there were none so excited as a portly middle-aged couple well known to the opera public of 20 years ago. The woman was Maria Gay, once a famed Carmen with the Metropolitan and Boston Opera companies. The man was her husband, Tenor Giovanni Zenatello. Motoring along the Riviera last winter these two had stopped in at a little opera house in Montpellier to hear Lucia. After the small-town performance they rushed backstage to meet the soprano. "Will you come to America if I can get you an audition with the Metropolitan?" Madame...
...days after her Metropolitan audition last March Lily Pons had signed three big contracts: one for five years with the Metropolitan Opera, one with Victor Talking Machine Co., another for concerts with the Metropolitan Musical Bureau (managers of Rosa Ponselle, Maria Jeritza, La Argentina). In France two people were proudly told the news. One was Lily Pons's mother, who after the father's death started a dressmaker's establishment in Cannes to provide for her three little girls, moved up to Paris when Lily decided she wanted to study piano at the Conservatoire. The other was Lily Pons...
...Poet and Peasant Overture) wrote them for Boccaccio, a cluttered comic piece based on the Italian storyteller's love for Fiammetta, bastard daughter of the Duke of Tuscany. But the Metropolitan audience was unusually enthusiastic, broke its rule, stayed almost to a dowager until the final curtain. Soprano Maria Jeritza (Boccaccio) was the magnet for most. She was radiantly fair, displayed calves beyond the dreams of most opera singers. One waltz, compiled by Conductor Artur Bodanzky from Suppe themes, she sang with such lilt that it stopped the show, set many to wishing that she would...