Word: marta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merry Widow's box-office appeal, the New Opera Company departed from its past policy of using only youthful U.S. unknowns. It hired world-famed Polish Operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura for leading man, gave the part of the Widow to his wife, Marta Eggerth. Redheaded Hungarian Cinemactress Eggerth, an enticing peach sundae in liberally flounced weeds, gave Lehár fans all they could...
...Yank at Eton (M.G.M.). Timothy Dennis (Mickey Rooney) is as American as Peck's Bad Boy, and a good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head...
When John L. Severance died six years ago, nobody knew for sure how many millions he had spent on culture for Cleveland. Because he had no direct heirs, his baronial 180-acre estate went to a second cousin, Severance A. Milliken, husband of Broadway Actress Marta Abba (Tovarich). The contents of the mansion, one of the finest private art collections in the Middle West, he had willed to the Cleveland Art Museum...
...orator, he prefers to read his speeches, which are, like himself, dry and sharp. He is married to a German-Chilean, Marta Ide Perera of the artistic Ide family, has a quiet, formal home life. He disapproved his three sons' music lessons lest culture should sissify them. For himself, he has preferred the wild horsemanship of el huaso, the Chilean cowboy...
TUMBLEWEEDS-Marta Roberts-Putnam ($2.50). This sympathetic study of simple, pious, maternal Concha Garcia subjects her strong spirit to much woe and a strange, alien world of Norteamericanos. By page two the reader suspects that Peón Pedro Garcia will lose his California section-gang job. But by chapter two the reader finds that there is little Steinbeck in this chronicle of adversity: Faith in the Saints supports Mama Garcia in preserving her Pedro's self-respect, her large brood's health and virtue. Pedro lacks Faith, succumbs to relief, gin, a jalopy. So Concha leaves...