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Dressed in their holiday best, the people of Loma Bonita turned out last week to honor their "most beloved citizen." The man: Frank Peters, 81, a native of Mount Carmel, Ill. The occasion: the dedication of the Frank Peters elementary school...
Tropical Loma Bonita (pop. 6,000) in the state of Oaxaca is probably the only town in Mexico whose "most beloved citizen" is a yanqui. Peters did not actually found the place, but he did introduce pineapple-growing, which is now the basis of the district's economy. When he arrived in 1906, Loma Bonita was a tiny village, and not a pineapple was to be seen for miles around...
Five TV stations promptly contracted for 13 weeks of the new package. In Hollywood, Frederic & Phillips began shooting five-minute films at the rate of four a day, with such stars as Bonita Granville and Gale Page. They hired a $500-a-week screenwriter to flesh out the plots (picked up in the free-lance market at $50 a plot). The California Bank advanced $50,000 to finance a second 13-week series and, last week, stations in Grand Rapids and Nashville signed up, bringing to 17 the number of TV stations now carrying the show. Says Frederic...
...first place, only a minor part of the picture really concerns itself with Cardinal Mindszenty. There are long and dreary ideological dialogues between a Russian Army Colonel and a dewy-eyed young lady who plays the Hungarian National Anthem as a diversion. When this young lady, acted by Bonita Granville, isn't playing the piano she relieves herself of such pronouncements as, "Is it an act of treason to fall in love?" She is in love, incidentally, with the Colonel who does nothing but spout party line in a monotone throughout...
...piano, and asked him to bring a guitarist along. Instead, Lara sent a baby grand with the note: "To the incomparable María Félix from her admirer, Agustin Lara." They were married soon after. Every Mexican knows how Lara's famous María Bonita was composed during an enraptured trip to Acapulco with María. But neither such tributes nor three mink coats kept her from divorcing him in 1947 for incompatibility...