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Alberto Romea
Alberto Romea (16 January 1882 – 14 April 1960) was a Spanish actor. Romea appeared in more than fifty films during his career including '' Lola, the Coalgirl'' (1952).Mira p.249 Selected filmography * ''El fantasma del castillo'' (1911) * ''Garrotazo y tentetieso'' (1916) * ''Clarita y Peladilla en el Football'' (1916) * ''Donde las dan las toman'' (1916) * ''El beso fatal'' (1916) * ''La dicha ajena'' (1917) * ''De cuarenta para arriba'' (1918) * ''La traviesa molinera'' (1934) - Magistrate * ''La bien pagada'' (1935) - Don Jorge * '' A Woman in Danger'' (1936) - Dr. Arnal * '' The Lady from Trévelez'' (1936) - Gonzalo de Trévelez * ''The Barber of Seville'' (1938) - Don Basilio * '' Carmen'' (1938) - Comandante Ramírez * ''Suspiros de España'' (1939) - Freddy Pinto * ''Sons of the Night'' (1939) - Don Francisco Cifuentes y Peláez * ''Los cuatro robinsones'' (1939) - Venancio * ''El genio alegre'' (1939) - Don Eligio, el administrador * ''Amore di ussaro'' (1940) - Conde D ...
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Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-large ...
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The Party Goes On
''The Party Goes On'' (Spanish:''La fiesta sigue'') is a 1948 Spanish drama film directed by Enrique Gómez and starring Antonio Casal, María Isbert and Juan Vázquez. It is set in the world of bullfighting Bullfighting is a physical contest that involves a bullfighter attempting to subdue, immobilize, or kill a bull, usually according to a set of rules, guidelines, or cultural expectations. There are several variations, including some forms wh ...Bentley p.107 Cast References Bibliography * Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer 2008. External links * 1948 films 1948 drama films Spanish drama films 1940s Spanish-language films Films directed by Enrique Gómez Films scored by Jesús García Leoz Spanish black-and-white films 1940s Spanish films {{1940s-Spain-film-stub ...
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Pedro Muñoz Seca
Pedro Muñoz Seca (20 February 1879 – 28 November 1936 ) was a Spanish comic playwright. He was one of the most successful playwrights of his era. He wrote approximately 300 dramatic works, both '' sainetes'' (short vignettes) and longer plays, often in collaboration with Pedro Pérez Fernández or Enrique García Álvarez... His most ambitious and best known play is ''La venganza de Don Mendo'' (Don Mendo's Revenge, 1918); other major works include ''La barba de Carrillo'' (''Carrillo's Beard'', 1918) and ''Pepe Conde'' (1920). Early life and career Muñoz Seca was born into a large family in El Puerto de Santa María, Cadiz, Spain, on 20 February 1879. (Because Muñoz Seca loved palindromic numbers, however, he often claimed that he was born in 1881. He also claimed to have been born at 10:15 pm, "the normal time for shows to start".) Muñoz Seca attended primary school at the Jesuit school of San Luis Gonzaga in El Puerto de Santa María. He then moved to Seville to stu ...
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish Spanish Realist literature, realist novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. Pérez Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 ''Episodios Nacionales'' (''National Episodes''), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and is considered as equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. Some of his works have been translated into English, as he has slowly become popular in the Anglophone world. While his plays are generally considered to be less successful than his novels, ''Realidad'' (1892) is important in the history of realism in the Spanish theatre. The Pérez Galdós museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria features a portrait of the writer by Joaquín Sorolla. He came to be nominated for the No ...
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Luis Fernández Ardavín
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a deriv ...
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Jacinto Benavente
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922 "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama". Biography Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics. A liberal monarchist and a critic of socialism, he was a reluctant supporter of Francoist Spain as the only viable alternative to what he considered the disastrous republican experiment of 1931–1936. In 1936 Benavente's name became associated with the assassination of the Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca. This happened when the Nationalist newspapers ''Estampa'', ...
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Carlos Fernández Shaw
Carlos Fernández Shaw (23 September 1865 – 7 June 1911) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and journalist. He wrote the texts for many zarzuelas, including '' La revoltosa'', ''La chavala'' and '' Las bravías'', all in collaboration with José López Silva and with music by Ruperto Chapí. He also wrote the libretto for Chapí's through-written opera ''Margarita la tornera''. He later wrote the libretto for '' La vida breve'' by Manuel de Falla, based on his tragic poem of gypsy life ''La chavalilla'' and drawing on ideas from ''La chavala''. He wrote articles for ''La epoca'', '' La illustración'' and ''El correo''.*Andrew Lamb. "Fernández Shaw, Carlos", ''Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Accessed October 15, 2015)(subscription access)/ref> He was also among the contributors of the Madrid-based avant-garde magazine ''Prometeo''. Fernández Shaw was born in Cadiz, the son of a Spanish father and an English mother. He was the father of the equally successful playwright and ...
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Hermanos Álvarez Quintero
Serafín Álvarez Quintero (March 26, 1871 – April 12, 1938) and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (January 20, 1873 – June 14, 1944) were Spanish dramatists. Biography Quintero brothers, photograph by Kaulak Born in Utrera, Seville Province in 1871 and 1873, they settled in Seville and worked as treasury employees, while collaborating on various publications such as , they gradually began their dedication to the theater. Their debut as authors took place in 1888 with at the Cervantes Theater in Seville. Their first stage piece, , was written in 1889. Other works include (1892), (1894), (1895), (1897), and (1898), (1900), and (1907), (1909), and (1915). Both brothers were members of the Royal Spanish Academy. Their first resounding success was in 1897 with , this success was followed by many others, consisting of (1901), (1906), (1912), (1912), (1908), and much later, (1930). They were named the favorite brothers of Utrera and Seville. Their works were translate ...
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History Of The Radio
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an Discipline (academia), academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the historiography, nature of history as an end in ...
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I Was A Parish Priest
''I Was a Parish Priest'' or ''God's War'' (Spanish:''La guerra de Dios'') is a 1953 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Claude Laydu, Francisco Rabal and José Marco Davó.Bentley p.121 It was awarded the Golden Shell, Gran Premio at the first ever San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was also shown at the 14th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival where it was awarded the Bronze Lion. It portrays the efforts of a young Priest sent to a poor mining village in the early 1930s. Synopsis A priest receives as his first assignment the parish of a mining town, beset by poverty. In this area he will focus all his forces to overcome the resentment accumulated by the miners towards the ecclesiastical profession. Cast * Claude Laydu as P. Andrés Mendoza * Francisco Rabal as Martín * José Marco Davó as Don César * Fernando Sancho as Barrona * Gérard Tichy as El Negro * Alberto Romea * Carmen Rodríguez (actress), Carmen Ro ...
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Welcome Mr
A welcome is a kind of greeting designed to introduce a person to a new place or situation, and to make them feel at ease. The term can similarly be used to describe the feeling of being accepted on the part of the new person. In some contexts, a welcome is extended to a stranger to an area or a household. "The concept of welcoming the stranger means intentionally building into the interaction those factors that make others feel that they belong, that they matter, and that you want to get to know them". It is also noted, however, that " many community settings, being welcoming is viewed as in conflict with ensuring safety. Thus, welcoming becomes somewhat self-limited: 'We will be welcoming unless you do something unsafe'". Different cultures have their own traditional forms of welcome, and a variety of different practices can go into an effort to welcome: Indications that visitors are welcome can occur at different levels. For example, a welcome sign, at the national, state ...
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Lola The Coalgirl
''Lola the Coalgirl'' (Spanish: ''Lola, la piconera'') is a 1952 Spanish historical musical film directed by Luis Lucia and starring Juanita Reina, Virgilio Teixeira and Manuel Luna. It was part of a series of patriotic historical films produced by CIFESA, Spain's biggest film company of the era. Other examples include '' Madness for Love'' (1948) and '' Agustina of Aragon''. The film's sets were designed by the German-born art director Sigfrido Burmann. Shooting began in June 1950, with filming at a Madrid studio and on location in Cadiz. On release the film was a moderate hit but because of its large budget it had not returned all of its cost several years later.Mira p.64 Synopsis During the Siege of Cádiz a female Spanish innkeeper falls in love with an officer of Napoleon's invading army. Cast * Juanita Reina as Lola * Virgilio Teixeira as Capitán Gustavo Lefevre * Manuel Luna as Mariscal Víctor * Fernando Nogueras as Rafael Otero * Félix Dafauce as ...
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