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...Agustin Zoroa Sánchez was handsome in the Latin way, with flashing black eyes, a hairline mustache and amorous lips. Perhaps he loved women, but three things filled his heart: devotion to Communism, resistance to Franco, and a longing for glory...
Last month, when 23 Communists were brought to trial, the prosecution identified Agustin Sánchez as the No. 1 Communist in Spain. Said he calmly: "I came ... to help end the tragic situation in which Spain finds herself. I was honored by this mission...
Eighty years ago last week, on New Year's Day, 1864, Jorge Agustin Nicolás de Santayana was christened in Madrid. This week he published his autobiography...
When Lara visited the pre-Olympic meets in San Salvador in 1935, the head lines declared: "Agustin Lara arrived, accompanied by Mexico's Minister of the Interior." Last week Agustin Lara was hard at work on a job which seemed a natural for him - a theme song for Lupe Velez' Mexican film appearance as Emile Zola's celebrated prostitute, Nana...
...Mexico City last week movie houses were packed by a wretched distortion of the life of Agustin Lara. Called Noches de Ronda ("Nights of Revelry"), it was a pale, sentimental story of a café musician's rise to radio fame. The face in the film was not the pinched, knife-scarred face of Lara, Mexico's most popular songwriter. The producers had taken one look at that and decided to give the role to the handsome singer Ramón Armengod. But what drew throngs to the box office was Lara's fantastic personal reputation...