Word: zita
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among his works was the revival of medieval guilds: the Guild of St. Luke, for physicians; St. Apollonia (tortured by having her teeth broken out), for dentists; St. Genesius, for stenographers, secretaries; St. Zita, for domestics; St. Agnes, for high school girls; St. Imelda, for factory girls; the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, for telephone operators...
...Little Otto" held, last week, his first "Royal Levee" at the old palace in Lequeitio, Spain, where he has been reared by his mother, ex-Empress and Queen Zita (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927). Well known is the fact that sympathetic, generous King Alfonso XIII of Spain contributes to the support of young "King Otto...
...MACHINAL-Zita Johann making herself famous in a sombre survey of justifiable homicide (TIME, Sept...
...MACHINAL-Zita Johann, a new and excellent actress, in a baldly tragic play about a murderess (TIME, Sept...
This commonplace story of a girl who is lonely in the world and frightened by its machinery is related on the stage by means of episodic scenes. The girl is beautifully played by an actress new to the Manhattan stage, Zita Johann, whom the expert Arthur Hopkins has discovered among the ranks of road players and raised, as he raised Barbara Stanwyck and Pauline Lord, to stardom. George Stillwell plays the woman's husband with a touch of burlesque that throws the role out of drawing with the true characters opposed to it. The sets, designed by Robert Edmond...