Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they went to one of Reykjavik's three dance halls, the girls would consent to dance with them, but would not be escorted home by them. If a girl were in discreet enough to accept an Englishman, she would have all her hair shaved off, like Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...Pretty Maria Garland of Peru was dressed in a costume of the ancient Incas. Usni Pramoj of Thailand was a small but elegant figure in silken plus fours. Starlet of the day was seven-year-old, barefoot, pinafored Liana De Bayle, daughter of the Nicaraguan Minister, and a veteran of international broadcasts. Liana recited a rhymed story of "a little [Nicaraguan] girl I think you know," concluded: "I wonder if you now suspect this little Nicaraguan girl...
Last week Nazi police discovered that some of Germany's tenderhearted Hausfrauen were "spoiling out-of-bounds" their Polish prisoners, imported to do the farm work left by Hitler's fighting men. In Mainz a special court convicted Frau Maria Frey of allowing hers "repeatedly to hug and kiss her and replying to these caresses," sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment. Frau Arna Strauch, convicted more succinctly of adultery, was sentenced to two years and four months. Both were deprived of citizenship for three years...
Within a year Soprano Pons made her debut, in 1928, in the provincial French opera of Mulhouse, Alsace. Her voice was heard in a few more second-string opera houses-Cannes, Vichy, La Baule-and, still unknown in France, pricked the ears of a couple of tourists. They were Maria Gay, an oldtime opera singer, and her husband Giovanni Zenatello. They took up the innocent Lily, promised her an audition at the Metropolitan. Within a few months Lily Pons was taking 16 Metropolitan curtain calls in Lucia, 30 a few nights later in Rigoletto. Later the Zenatellos sued...
Divorced. Francis Lederer, 34, dark-eyed Czech-American actor; by Margo (real name: Maria Margharita Teresa Guadalupe Castilla Bolado), svelte Mexican-born dancer who turned cinemactress (Crime Without Passion, Winterset); after three years' marriage; in Las Vegas...