Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozen of the Metropolitan's once-great singers went to Manhattan's Town Hall last week. Frances Alda, Giovanni Martinelli, Maria Jeritza, Karin Branzell and Elisabeth Rethberg sat in the audience. On stage was the oldest of them all, roly-poly, 69-year-old Giuseppe de Luca, onetime star of the Met's "Golden Age." It was his first Manhattan recital in 29 years. Said De Luca afterward: "Even before I began to sing they make a big ovation. They don't even know can I still sing. They are saying...
...Italian descent, spent eleven years on the way up, most of them singing with Ted Weems's orchestra. He remembers it as "riding on buses all day and singing all night." He is a Catholic, like Sinatra and Crosby, but is less apt to break into Ave Maria. Something like the new nonsense song, One-zy, Two-zy I Love You-zy, is more his style. He sometimes sings Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life to win the old folks, but in general he's a bobby-soxer's man, who gets screamed at. Says...
...publishers 30? a copy to lease a book's plates, has the book printed himself. He guarantees publishers minimum royalties of $100,000, often pays much more. Example: he paid Publisher Appleton-Century about $150,000 for Arch of Triumph. The publisher split this fee with Author Erich Maria Remarque, just as all B.O.M.C. royalties are split with authors...
Inside Spain, ancient monarchist families painfully felt a new, hostile attitude. It was rumored that Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart Falco, Duke of Alba (Britain's Duke of Berwick), the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, the Duke of Medinaceli and others were fined a half million pesetas for signing a royalist manifesto. It was fact that Alba and five more "ceased" to be members of the Cortes, that royalist officials were fired, that royalist university professors were assaulted by Falangist students...
...Born. To Maria Montez, 28, the Dominican Republic's gift to Hollywood, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 33, boyish-looking French cinemactor (The Cross of Lorraine), in 1940 a tankman at Sedan: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Maria Christine. Weight...