Word: bolivar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ameche prefers Carmen Miranda, Pan-American attraction is adequately proved. That Night in Rio should convince Latins that the yanquis are trying to be good albeit slightly dreamy and gushing, neighbors. If they want other evidence, they can look forward to Robert Taylor in The Life of Simon Bolivar, Tyrone Power in Blood and Sand and R. K. O.'s They Met in Argentina, coming Hollywood productions inspired by Mr. Whitney's non-compulsory suggestions...
Excellently drawn, in fresh, lively colors, intelligently captioned, True Comics offered: the colorful stories of Winston Churchill, "World Hero No.1";-George Rogers Clark, potent Revolutionary War hero and frontier fighter; David Bushnell, ingenious Yankee inventor of the first submarine in the Revolutionary War; Simon Bolivar, great South American liberator, whose hero was George Washington. Other brightly colored features include a series on the world's warplanes in action, Lowell Thomas' "greatest adventure," the story of the original Greek Marathon run. Confident first edition was 300,000 copies...
Hollywood still was making hopeful gestures toward Latin America last week. In production were half a dozen films with Latin backgrounds, including M. G. M.'s The Life of Simon Bolivar with Robert Taylor, 20th Century-Fox's remake of Blood and Sand with Tyrone Power, Paramount's Mexican story, Rurales. In Washington, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics, conferred with John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who announced a new promotion drive for U. S. pictures in Latin America, "based solely on the presentation of entertainment films...
Trelawny also met Byron. Yachting, Trelawny found, was almost as popular among the Pisan expatriates as poetry and revolution. He got a boatbuilder friend to construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements...
Trelawny and Byron decided to liberate Greece. But when Byron died at Missolonghi, Trelawny was not with him. He had met another "glorious being," a patriotic Greek outlaw named Odysseus, "a Bolivar who might become a Washington." They hunted bears and Turks together. Soon Trelawny (in a Greek kilt) was living with the Odysseus family in their mountain cave, had married Odysseus' half sister. But she was too fond of European fashions, and they parted. "Marriage," wrote Trelawny, "is a most unnatural state of things...