Word: margherita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris last week for an "indefinite stay" was elegant, hollow-eyed Margherita Sarfatti, once a great personal friend and professional colleague of Benito Mussolini, now in disgrace in Italy because her family, although old honored and Venetian, is also Jewish. Margherita and Benito met when she was art critic and he editor of the Socialist Avanti in Milan, long before he became famous. Through the comparatively tranquil late '20s and up until 1935, when the Duce made most of his private income by writing for the Hearst newspapers, Madame Sarfatti was his "ghost" and manager. When the Dictator wanted...
Thirty Day Princess (Paramount) shows how complicated the flotation of an international bond issue may become when conducted by Hollywood instead of Wall Street. This picture provides Sylvia Sidney with a dual role. As Princess Catterina Theodora Margherita ("Zizi'') of the Kingdom of Taronia, she is brought to the U. S. to help market $50,000,000 worth of Taronian bonds. As Nancy Lane. Miss Sidney is a shabby minor actress, spending her last 17? in an Automat. Princess Zizi fails ill of mumps. Fifty detectives hunting a double for her come upon...
...from where the proud Metropolitan had been begging for its life. The Hippodrome seats were cheap (99? top). So was the quality of the performances. But listeners for the season topped 1,000,000. The impresario was Alfredo Salmaggi, a longhaired, high-strung Italian who taught the late Queen Margherita to play the mandolin, carries Caruso's silver-headed cane and specializes in Aïida with horses, elephants, camels...
Alfredo Salmaggi is a long-haired Italian who wherever he goes carries a silver-topped cane which belonged to Caruso and loves to tell about the days when he taught Italy's Queen Margherita to play the mandolin. Salmaggi has an Aïda complex. He has given Verdi's spectacular opera in Egypt at the foot of the pyramids, in Mexico City's bull ring, in dozens of open-air stadiums. He uses elephants, camels, horses. The Hippodrome venture started out as an all-Aïda affair. Some 10,000 passes were given...
...called the "Little Hosts" which, founded in his honor, had grown too impassioned and hysterical. Also disciplined were the "Little Victims of Christ," the Order of St. Bridget of Sweden, and a Carmelite group who had so cut themselves off from the world as to be called "buried alive." Margherita Spezzaferri, founder of the "Little Hosts," was forbidden the use of any religious building for services. The other nuns were to be transferred to less ecstatic nunneries...