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Kiss Me, Kate (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Bella & Sam Spewack; produced by Arnold Saint Subber & Lemuel Ayers) was 1948's last new show, and by far its best musical. It is only a musical, and not, like Oklahoma!, a milestone as well. But if nothing about it is revolutionary, everything is right. Full-blooded and sassy and enormously gay, Kiss Me, Kate can brag about its music at least, without blushing for its book; it looks pretty, moves fast, is full of bright ideas and likable people...
Near the top in below-ground joints is the Plaza Bar, moderate in price and crowded to the door. The intimate atmosphere is the stock-in-trade of the Bella Vista, which has no dancing...
President Picado, a feckless figurehead in a bright red shirt, was cooped up in the red-roofed Casa Presidencial. It was smart, stocky, 39-year-old Manuel Mora, leader of the Communist Vanguardia Popular, who ran things from the Bella Vista fortress. Last week he reached outside the capital and put one of his men in command of a government battalion which was moving against the rebels from coastal Playa Dominical. His forces had control of United Fruit banana plantations on the Pacific Coast, and were burning and looting. When Archbishop Victor Manuel Sanabria crossed the lines to bring...
...Commissar. There were many other pieces in the political crazy quilt. In Costa Rica, bumbling President Teodoro Picado had been shoved aside, and Communist Chieftain Manuel Mora was openly bossing the government show from Bella Vista fortress. Shrewd Manuel Mora gave his Communists guns, then held them ready in the capital. Campesinos and other "volunteers" were shipped off to fight the Ulatistas...
...Goodwins: the 2,327-ton freighter Silvia Onorato, carrying 2,933 tons of plumbago (graphite). When a lifeboat came through mountainous seas to take off the crew, bushy-browed Captain Francesco Ruocco cried: "Ship go, me go. . . . This ship she mean everything to me and to my bella...