Word: marquesa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making the artificially connected episodes of Thornton Wilder's fantasy into visual drama has been done well?so well that this picture, unlike most of those based on successful books, will appeal chiefly to people who have read the story. The brightly colored insubstantial characters?the disordered old Marquesa, tormented with love for a daughter who does not like her; the novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died; Manuel, infatuated with La Perichole (Lily Damita); Uncle Pio (Ernest Torrence...
...floor of the Madrid Stock Exchange accompanied by two noblemen and that such conduct was "imprudent and inexplicable." Since then the Dictator has refused challenges to duel by the noblemen concerned, Conde de Cemira and the Duque de Almodovar, and has been cut by such great ladies as the Marquesa de Urquijo and the Duquesa de Montellano, both intimate friends of jilted Señorita Mercedes de Castellanos...
...BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY- Thornton Wilder-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). "On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." The five people were: The Marquesa de Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of Manuel, Uncle Pio, and Don Jaime the son of the actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction...
Born. To Jacobo, 10th Duke of Berwick, 17th Duke of Alba, Senator in the Spanish Cortes, 48, and Maria del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Marquesa de San Vicente, 26, a daughter; at Madrid. The Duke is commonly referred to as the highest grandee in Spain. The retiring U. S. Ambassador to Spain, Mr. Moore, habitually addressed him not as "Jacobo" but as "Jimmy...
...York Tribune: "The laborers and half-caste Indians are authentic. But the Marquesa Elena is put together by formula...