Word: christina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King, even in the days of misfortune afflicted by the death of the Queen-Mother, Maria Christina. When I conclude my address you will pronounce the words for the opening of this exposition...
...Christina (Fox). Janet Gaynor is the first picture actress to suggest convincingly real, virginal youth. Her beautiful and delicate charm, made famous in Seventh Heaven, is now set to work in a pretty, painstaking, and rather inane film about a Dutch girl who falls in love with a circus performer, and, after difficulties, is united to him. Best shots-the Dutch village...
...those who like her?and there are those who rank her with Sappho, Elizabeth Browning, Christina Rossetti?the publication of Further Poems is an event delectable and important...
Guardedly whispered was a bit of palace gossip that the youngest of the Royal Infantas, Princess Maria Christina-17 and high strung-almost fainted when her father, the King, invoked an old Spanish custom and bade her assist him to prepare for burial the corpse of Queen Maria Christina, after whom the Princess was named...
...preparation was of the simplest, involving only the removal of Queen Maria Christina's secular garments and the robing of her corpse in the habit of a nun, for King Alfonso absolutely forbade that the body should be embalmed. He also refused to permit the taking of the usual state photograph of the corpse...