Word: rosita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman at the door would not take no for an answer. She must see Rosita González de Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...
...Fish. Rosita raced to La Moneda, Chile's White House. Carmen went home to tell her husband what she had done. He wasted no time on reproaches, hurried off to confess the whole business to his commander. Quickly the government rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...
...heretofore unproduced work is the fourth major joint production of HDC and Idler. Predecessors of "Owen Wingrave" in this respect are "Mashenka," which was produced on Broadway after its staging here and of which the Dramatic Club received many requests for performances in other cities; the dynamic "Dona Rosita"; and last year's hit, "Playboy of the Western World...
...concensus following Thursday's smoker seemed to be that no matter how humble, there is nothing like home talent. Everybody was just crazy about J. Peter (Rosita Royce) Schaeffer and "her" Harvard Yard pigeon whose placid, fluffy beauty was brought in alive to flutter around during the er-a-dance. Rosita's statuesque loveliness captured the "imagination" of the Dog Baker-weary multitude no end, and Lt. (jg) P. L. Geibel, the tactics man, was besieged with requests for new instructions on solving the gm line. At about that time, however, the capacitance was about to overflow its square root...
Essentially a series of vignettes or period pieces, the play is of a sort unfortunately unfamiliar to American audiences. Lorca, his admirers to the contrary, is not "the Spanish Chekov," although like much of Chekov's, "Dona Rosita" is frequently talky, mildly critical of society, and tied together by mood rather than plot action. But where Chekov is penetrating in character portrayal and development, Lorca is intentionally superficial and static. Describing his play as "a poem of 1900 Granada, divided into various gardens, with scenes of song and dance," the author uses Rosita too much as a symbol...