Word: blasco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Safe in Paris, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist, published his much advertised attack upon the King of Spain (TIME, Oct. 20). In a pamphlet entitled Alfonso Unmasked, Ibanez accused the King of remaining "a precocious child, without becoming a man," of being lightheaded, a German spy during the War, the sole cause of the Moroccan disaster...
Satire thrives on censorship. The Spanish Directorate, whose malefactions unleased the thunder of Blasco lbanex, has now awakened the more subtle spirit of Dean Swift. Gulliver in this case is Bagaria, the famous cartoon'st of El So, a Madrid daily, and the scene of his remarkable travels is neither Brobdingnag nor the Houyhnhnms--but the more pertinent Mars. Daily letters describing in detail the condition of Martian life and Martian morals have been published in El Sol. Baraglas inferences of Mars correspond suspiciously with the present state of Spanish affairs. "Ninety percent of the Martians are soldiers...
Thus when Vicente Blasco Ibanez, a writer of ability, but of little depth, attacks the King of Spain, his plot is doubtless fodder for the cinema kings. Beyond that it need not be taken seriously. The attack was delivered and much was made of it in the daily press. Said Blasco...
...York World, champion of Liberalism, apparently could not see the woods for the trees. It declared that "Don Blasco is too intelligent not to be a republican. The King business has been a bad business for Spain." The "King business" is a favorite expression of The World. Because the Prince of Wales is "entirely composed of prestige"-a statement far from the truth-the "King business" ought to be wound up. Because Ibanez is seen as "the greatest of all Spaniards"-an absurd contention-the "King business" in Spain ought to be wound up. A critic said: "Such childish logic...
QUEEN CALAFIA-Vicente Blasco Ibanez-Button ($2.00). Ibanez has had excellent motion pictures made from at least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely...