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Madame and Chiang
During and after World War II, Chiang and his American-educated wife Soong May-ling, known in the United States as " Madame Chiang ", held the support of the United States ' China Lobby, which saw in them the hope of a Christian and democratic China.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady.
* Pakula, Hannah, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China ( London, Weidenfeld, 2009 ).
Main characters in the opera are: the Nixons, Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, Chiang Ch ' ing ( Madame Mao ) and Henry Kissinger.
Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang (; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003 ) was a First Lady of the Republic of China ( ROC ), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Madame Chiang at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference, 25 November 1943
As her husband rose to become Generalissimo and leader of the Kuomintang, Madame Chiang acted as his English translator, secretary and advisor.
During World War II, Madame Chiang tried to promote the Chinese cause and build a legacy for her husband on par with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.
During his visit to China, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and Willkie took an interest in each other.
After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed on the mainland, siding with the communists.
Madame Chiang continued to play a prominent international role.
After the death of her husband in 1975, Madame Chiang assumed a low profile.
Chiang Kai-shek was succeeded to power by his eldest son Chiang Ching-kuo, from a previous marriage, with whom Madame Chiang had rocky relations.
Madame Chiang returned to Taiwan upon Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988, to shore up support among her old allies.

Madame and New
* The Maids ( Madame )-Bristol New Vic ( 27 September 1983 / 22 October 1983 )
The term New Age was used in this context in Madame Blavatsky's book The Secret Doctrine, published in 1888.
When Madame Chiang was 103 years old, she had an exhibition of her Chinese paintings in New York.
* Laura Tyson Li, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady ( New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006 ).
Also see the article “ Talking to the Dead and Other Amusements ” by Paul Zweig New York Times October 5, 1980, which maintains that Madame Blavatsky's revelations were fraudulent.
42nd Street illuminated by signs for New Amsterdam Theatre, McDonald's, Madame Tussauds, Applebee's, Dave & Buster's, and New Victory Theater.
* E. L. Didier, Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte ( New York, 1879 )
Joseph had two American daughters born at Point Breeze, his estate in New Jersey, by his mistress, Annette Savage (" Madame de la Folie "):
She taught ' Workshop in the Novel ' at New York University in 1943 and 1944, and also worked as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s, contributing to the Madame Curie biopic and the John Ford and John Wayne war movie, They Were Expendable.
* Ross Terrill, The White-Boned Demon: A Biography of Madame Mao Zedong ( New York: Morrow, 1984 ).
This included many of the newspapers of her day: for example, in the Hallowell ( Maine ) Gazette, 8 February 1815, p. 4, it refers to how the congress had allowed " Madame Dolly Madison " an allowance of $ 14, 000 to purchase new furniture ; and the New Bedford ( MA ) of 3 March 1837, p. 2 referred to a number of important papers from her late husband, and said that " Mrs. Dolly Madison " would be paid by the Senate for these historical manuscripts.
* Madame Sans-Gène by Umberto Giordano – New York, January 25, 1915
There are also Madame Tussauds in Dam Square, Amsterdam ; Berlin ; Hong Kong ; Shanghai ; and three locations in the United States: the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, Times Square in New York City, and new ones in Washington, D. C. and Hollywood.
* Madame Sherry New York
Other test films by Case in his process include Miss Manila Martin and Her Pet Squirrel ( 1921 ), Bird in a Cage ( 1923 ), Madame Fifi ( 1925 ), and Chinese Variety Performer with a Ukelele ( 1925 ) and Gallagher and Shean ( 1925 ), all recorded in a sparse studio located on the second floor of the Case estate carriage house in Auburn, New York, now a museum.
In 1964, Cheng moved with his family ( Madame Cheng, two sons, and three daughters ) to the United States, where he taught at the New York T ' ai Chi Association at 211 Canal Street in Manhattan.
In June 1805 he married Madame Louise Moreau de Lassy or D ' Avezac, a widow 19 years of age, whose maiden name was Davezac de Castera, and who was a refugee in New Orleans from the revolution in Santo Domingo.
In Taiwan, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek requested a statue of Chennault in the New Park of Taipei to commemorate this wartime friend after his death ( the statue has since been relocated to Hualian AFB ).
* Madame Sans-Gêne ( 25 January 1915, Metropolitan Opera, New York )
Farrar created the title roles in Pietro Mascagni's Amica ( Monte Carlo, 1905 ), Puccini's Suor Angelica ( New York, 1918 ), and Umberto Giordano's Madame Sans-Gêne ( New York, 1915 ) as well as the Goosegirl in Engelbert Humperdinck's Die Königskinder ( New York, 1910 )
Dullea's other notable roles include Devon in the short-lived 1973 science fiction series The Starlost, Clayton Anderson Jr. in Madame X, Paul Renfield in The Fox, and Thomas Grambell in Brave New World ( 1981 ).

Madame and Life
* The Glamorous Life — Fredrika Armfeldt, Desiree Armfeldt, Madame Armfeldt and Quintet
* Life magazine called Madame the " most powerful woman in the world.
* Life in pictures: Madame Chiang Kai-shek
She played an officious headmistress in The Happiest Days of Your Life at the Apollo Theatre in 1948 and such classical roles as Madame Desmortes in Ring Round the Moon ( Globe Theatre, 1950 ), Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World ( Lyric Hammersmith, 1953 and Saville Theatre, 1956 ) and Mrs Candour in The School for Scandal ( Haymarket Theatre, 1962 ).
* La vie devant soi — 1975 Prix Goncourt ; filmed as Madame Rosa ( 1977 ); translated as " Momo " ( 1978 ); re-released as The Life Before Us ( 1986 ).
In 1999 DeLaria played the recurring role of Madame Delphina on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, returning in 2008 as both Delphina and Professor Delbert Fina.
* One Life to Live as Madame Delphina and Professor Del Fina ( 1999, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 ) ( TV )
** Joseph Balsamo ( Mémoires d ' un médecin: Joseph Balsamo, 1846 – 1848 ) ( a. k. a. Memoirs of a Physician, Cagliostro, Madame Dubarry, The Countess Dubarry, or The Elixir of Life )( Joseph Balsamo is about 1000 pages long, and is usually published in two volumes in English translations: Vol 1.
* Caldwell, Daniel H. ( ed ) The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky: Insights Into the Life of a Modern Sphinx, Quest Books, 2000.
" ( 1760 and 1761 ), a burlesque of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life in the form of The Oeconomy of a Winter's Day ( 1750 ), a biography of Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV of France in 1760, and a great deal of translation and review work.
Madame de Sévigné: A Life and Letters.
She was appointed OBE in 1969, awarded Woman of the Year in 1984, had a waxwork in Madame Tussauds in 1977 and in 1971 appeared on This is Your Life.
* Life of Nattier, by his daughter, Madame Tocqué
* Madame Lucile: A Life in Style by Randy Bryan Bigham
A translation of the Lettres de l ' abbé Edgeworth avec des mémoires sur sa vie was published by Madame Elizabeth de Bow in Paris in 1818, and Letters from the Abbé Edgeworth to his Friends, with Memoirs of his Life, edited by Thomas Richard England, in London in 1818.
She continued to act in movies of the week such as, Her Life As A Man and Madame X, and had recurring roles on TV in the soap, Days of our Lives, and the sitcom, So Little Time with the Olsen twins.
Since then she has had some notable roles, including Maureen Connell in Between the Lines ( 1992 – 1994 ), Shona Spurtle in the anarchic Scottish sitcom The High Life ( 1994 – 1995 ), Madame Sin in In The Red BBC TV ( 1998 ), Janice Taylor in Holby City ( 2000 – 2002 ), Sharon in The Smoking Room ( 2004 – 2005 ), Maeve Brown in EastEnders, clinical psychiatrist Pru Plunkett in Midsomer Murders and the mistrusting Alsia in Shoebox Zoo.
Booth next translated Victor Cousin's Secret History of the French Court: or, Life and Times of Madame de Chevreuse ( 1859 ).

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